Equinix ME5
OperationalEquinix ME5 is a data center in Melbourne (West Melbourne), Australia, operated by Equinix, currently operational.
Equinix data center in West Melbourne, the smallest of the operator's Melbourne sites by published floor space.
- Operator
- Equinix
- City
- Melbourne (West Melbourne), Australia
- Power, MW
- —
- Cooling
- Air
- Floor space
- 3,151 m²
- Market benchmark
- $188 per kW per month wholesale · Australia
- Index rate for the market, not this operator’s price list
- Address
- West Melbourne, VIC, Australia · Open in maps ↗
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Coloprice Score
40 out of 100
Class D · #26 of 168 in Australia
- Resilience10/35
- Compliance18/20
- Transparency5/20
- Scale0/15
- Maturity7/10
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Equinix ME5 is an IBX data center in West Melbourne, Victoria (postcode 3003). Equinix does not publish a street address on the facility page. The building is described as a five-storey structure of reinforced concrete with precast load-bearing and concrete block walls, offering 3,150 m² (33,911 ft²) of colocation space. Published specifications list N+1 UPS redundancy, N+20% cooling redundancy, a minimum cabinet density of 2 kVA, 240 V / 415 V power distribution and a floor load of 251 psf raised. Backup power is two 400 kW generators and three 1,125 kW generators on a parallel bus, with 30 hours or more of autonomy at full load. The 2025 sustainability entry cites grid renewables backed by mixed LGCs from Australia. Total MW capacity is not published.
- ▮Colocation space of 3,150 m² (33,911 ft²) in a five-storey reinforced-concrete building.
- ▮N+1 UPS redundancy and N+20% cooling redundancy.
- ▮Generators: two 400 kW and three 1,125 kW on a parallel bus, 30 hours or more of autonomy at full load.
- ▮Minimum cabinet density of 2 kVA; 240 V / 415 V distribution.
- ▮2025 sustainability entry: grid renewables backed by mixed LGCs from Australia.
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