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Server colocation & hosting in Marseille

Marseille has 7 data centers listed on DataColoc, operated notably by Digital Realty, dc2scale SAS, Telehouse, PHOCEA DC. Compare colocation (rack, half-rack, 1U), pricing, certifications and connectivity, then get an instant costed estimate.

Server colocation in Marseille (server housing) means installing your own servers in a rack or cabinet (42U) inside a secure data center: redundant power, cooling, 24/7 security and multi-carrier connectivity. DataColoc lists 7 data centers offering colocation in Marseille, including Digital Realty, dc2scale SAS, Telehouse, PHOCEA DC. Its top-connected site lists 221 networks and 10 internet exchange points (IXPs).

Frequently asked questions

How much does a rack (colocation) cost in Marseille?

a full rack is priced on electrical power (kVA), IP transit and cross-connects. Compare the 7 data centers in Marseille to get a costed quote.

What is the difference between housing and colocation?

None: “housing” and “colocation” mean the same thing — hosting your own servers in a third-party data center, as opposed to renting a dedicated server or public cloud.

Which data centers in Marseille are ISO 27001 certified?

1 of the 7 data centers listed in Marseille declare ISO 27001. Filter by certification (ISO 27001, HDS, PCI-DSS) in the comparator to keep only compliant sites.

Learn the basics: colocation, 42U rack, cross-connect, IP transit, Tier III/IV.

Costed answers: how much does a rack cost?, cross-connect pricing, colocation or cloud? — and the colocation price barometer.

What does a rack in Marseille really cost?

Beyond listed prices, here is the computed cost of a standard 5 kW rack in Marseille, from our open market model (published method, version 2026.07-v1):

ItemEstimate
5 kW rack, per month€906 – €1,034
Cost per kW per month€157 – €180
Over 3 years (36 months)€32,616 – €37,224

What this covers: local industrial energy tariff, site efficiency (PUE), retail colocation margin and local market tightness. What it does not: IP transit, cross-connects, setup fees and PDUs — priced site by site in the comparator.

An estimate, not an offer. It is a model, with an open method and a version — not a contractual rate. A quote prices your actual configuration. Think the model is wrong? The method is published: tell us where.

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Digital Realty Marseille MRS1/2/3/4

Digital Realty · MRS1: 13003 MRS2/3: 13015
1 baieTier III (indicative)221 networks present
on quote

dc2scale MRS1 (Marseille datacenter)

dc2scale SAS · 13009
1/4 baie · 1/2 baie · 1 baieSovereign (outside US CLOUD Act)4 networks present
on quote

Free Pro - Marseille - MRS1

· 13321
Sovereign (outside US CLOUD Act)28 networks present
on quote

EXA Edge DC Marseille

· 13015
Sovereign (outside US CLOUD Act)1 networks present
on quote

Telehouse THM1

Telehouse
1/4 baieSovereign (outside US CLOUD Act)Tier III (indicative)Cert.: ISO 27001, PCI DSS, ISO 50001
on quote

Digital Realty MRS2

Digital Realty
1 baieTier III (indicative)
on quote

PHOCEA DC-M1

PHOCEA DC · 13003
Sovereign (outside US CLOUD Act)2 networks present
on quote

What Marseille allows

Marseille has 7 data centers, operated by Digital Realty, dc2scale SAS, Telehouse, PHOCEA DC. Declared design level: Tier III. That level describes the building's redundancy, not a contractual availability commitment: only the contract carries one. Available formats range from 1 baie to 1/2 baie (1 baie, 1/4 baie, 1/2 baie): you can start small here, without renting a whole rack.

Connectivity from Marseille

221 networks are listed at the sites in Marseille according to public interconnection registries. That number drives your negotiating power: every carrier inside the building is one more quote, with no civil works. 10 Internet exchange points are reachable from these sites, which cuts latency to the large content networks and the cost of transit. The large networks reachable directly from these sites, without buying transit, are Alibaba Cloud, Amazon Web Services, DigitalOcean, Google, Hetzner, IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud and 8 more: they are present at the exchange points where 2 of the 7 sites in the city are points of presence. Reaching your cloud over an exchange point rather than the public Internet changes latency, and above all the price of data egress.

Compliance and sovereignty

Declared certifications: ISO 27001, PCI DSS, ISO 50001. A certification is verified site by site and carries an expiry date: ask for the certificate, not the logo. Note: part of the operation falls under a US-jurisdiction company, hence under the CLOUD Act. Hosting in Europe is not enough to escape it: what counts is the provider's nationality, not the building's address.

The electricity behind Marseille

A city has no electricity of its own: the sites in Marseille are connected to the national grid, itself interconnected with its neighbours. What is measured, and what decides, is therefore the country's generation mix. That grid draws 68.8% of its electricity from nuclear (2025). The detail: nuclear 68.8%, hydro 10.4%, wind 8.2%, solar 5.6%, natural gas 3%, oil (fuel oil, diesel) 1.8%. Fossil fuels (coal, gas, oil) account for 5.1% of it. A kilowatt-hour there weighs 41 g of CO2, i.e. 11.2 times less than the world average (458 g), 2025 figure. Concretely: a 3 kVA rack, in a site with a PUE of 1.5, draws 35,478 kWh a year and therefore emits 1.5 tonnes of CO2 a year here. The same rack, same hardware, same PUE, would emit 16 tonnes on a world-average grid. The building has nothing to do with it: the country does.

Source: Ember / Energy Institute via Our World in Data, retrieved 2026-09-14. A site under a direct renewable purchase agreement may show a different balance: that is for the operator to declare.

What the ground has done under Marseille

Since 1970, 0 earthquake of magnitude 5 or above has been recorded within 100 km of Marseille, and 1 within 200 km. The strongest: magnitude 5 in 1985, 194 km away. This record covers 56 years, which is short on a seismic timescale: no recorded earthquake does not mean no hazard. It does not replace the statutory zoning, which alone binds construction.

Source: U.S. Geological Survey, ANSS ComCat, retrieved 2026-09-14. Measured from the median coordinates of the city's sites.

What Marseille does not allow

No rate is published by the operators in this city: pricing is on request, and we do not estimate it on their behalf.

Other cities with data centers near Marseille

The nearest site outside Marseille is 16 km away, in Les Milles. Short distances matter: they drive the cost of a link between two buildings, and whether a backup site is workable.

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