Datacenter AM4 / Benthem Crouwel Architects
TEMPLE OF THE 21ST CENTURY: DATA CENTERS EQUINIX IN AMSTERDAMAM4, Equinix's new data center, makes the invisible visible: the abstract data cloud is wrapped in an impressive tower where 12-storeys of servers facilitate our internet traffic and data storage 24 hours a day.
© Jannes Linders
Architects: Benthem Crouwel Architects
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Lead Architects: Joost Vos
Area: 24000.0 m2
Project Year: 2017
Photographs: Jannes Linders
© Jannes Linders
Text description provided by the architects. TEMPLE OF THE 21ST CENTURY: DATA CENTERS EQUINIX IN AMSTERDAM
AM4, Equinix's new data center, makes the invisible visible: the abstract data cloud is wrapped in an impressive tower where 12-storeys of servers facilitate our internet traffic and data storage 24 hours a day.
Implantation
European Internet node
The tower with a height of seventy-two meters has been opened this summer on the Science Park, an academic campus in Amsterdam. From the ringroad A10 this 'cloud box' is clearly visible. The new building is Equinix's second data center on the Amsterdam Science Park. The campus processes about 38 percent of all Dutch data traffic. In Europe, the Amsterdam area - together with London and Frankfurt - is one of the most important data center hubs. In 2012, the first data center was opened, AM3 - with horizontal lamellae, and now the tower - AM4 with 24.000m2 of serv...
© Jannes Linders
Architects: Benthem Crouwel Architects
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Lead Architects: Joost Vos
Area: 24000.0 m2
Project Year: 2017
Photographs: Jannes Linders
© Jannes Linders
Text description provided by the architects. TEMPLE OF THE 21ST CENTURY: DATA CENTERS EQUINIX IN AMSTERDAM
AM4, Equinix's new data center, makes the invisible visible: the abstract data cloud is wrapped in an impressive tower where 12-storeys of servers facilitate our internet traffic and data storage 24 hours a day.
Implantation
European Internet node
The tower with a height of seventy-two meters has been opened this summer on the Science Park, an academic campus in Amsterdam. From the ringroad A10 this 'cloud box' is clearly visible. The new building is Equinix's second data center on the Amsterdam Science Park. The campus processes about 38 percent of all Dutch data traffic. In Europe, the Amsterdam area - together with London and Frankfurt - is one of the most important data center hubs. In 2012, the first data center was opened, AM3 - with horizontal lamellae, and now the tower - AM4 with 24.000m2 of serv...
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