Digital Realty MRS5

Under construction

Enceinte Portuaire, Porte 4, 13015 Marseille, France

Digital Realty MRS5 is a data center in Marseille, France, operated by Digital Realty (Interxion), currently under construction.

Digital Realty's newest Marseille data center project at the Port of Marseille, extending the MRS subsea-cable gateway campus.

Digital Realty MRS5 — schematic illustration — Schematic illustration based on published specifications, not a photograph · air-cooled · under construction

Operator: Digital Realty (Interxion)
City: Marseille, France
Power, MW: —
Cooling: Air
Floor space: 4,400 m²
Renewable energy: 100%

Coloprice Score

11 out of 100

Class E · #65 of 70 in France

Resilience0/35
Compliance0/20
Transparency8/20
Scale0/15
Maturity3/10

How the score is calculated →

Embed score badge

<a href="https://coloprice.com/data-centers/france/marseille/digital-realty-mrs5-marseille/?utm_source=score-badge&utm_medium=embed">
  <img src="https://coloprice.com/badge/score/digital-realty-mrs5-marseille.svg"
    alt="Digital Realty MRS5 — Coloprice Score 11" height="64">
</a>

River cooling defines this project: MRS5 will draw naturally cold 15 C water from a disused mining gallery through an underground network, a system Digital Realty says is around 30 times more energy-efficient than conventional chillers and that underpins a design PUE of 1.3. The facility is rising on the site of a demolished sugar silo inside the Grand Port Maritime de Marseille, extending the operator's subsea-cable gateway campus to a sixth building. The silo was deconstructed in 2024, construction runs from 2025 to 2027, and the data center is slated to be operational in 2028 with 22 MW of IT load; Digital Realty's own listing cites about 4,400 sqm of space, while planning coverage has described up to 12,000 sqm of IT area. Like its MRS siblings it will run on 100 percent renewable power and is targeting LEED certification, aimed at carriers and cloud and AI platforms exchanging traffic between Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

▮River-cooling system using 15 C water from an old mining gallery, ~30x more efficient
▮22 MW planned on a former sugar-silo site at the Port of Marseille
▮Construction 2025-2027, targeted operational in 2028
▮Design PUE of 1.3 with 100% renewable energy and LEED target
▮Sixth facility on Digital Realty's Marseille subsea gateway campus

Colocation pricing: France & other markets — The Colocation Price Index →