Basel has 1 data center listed on DataColoc, operated notably by IWB. Compare colocation (rack, half-rack, 1U), pricing, certifications and connectivity, then get an instant costed estimate.
Colocation in Basel (server housing) relies on one listed data center, operated by IWB. Your servers are hosted in a 19" rack featuring redundant power, cooling, and 24/7 security. Its top-connected site lists 22 networks and 2 internet exchange points (IXPs). For a wider choice, nearby cities and their distances are listed below.
DataColoc lists 1 data center offering colocation in Basel (IWB). The nearest alternatives are listed below, with their distance.
The site lists up to 22 networks and 2 internet exchange points (IXPs). IP transit and cross-connects can be estimated based on your needs using the comparison tool.
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24 networks are listed at the sites in Basel according to public interconnection registries. That number drives your negotiating power: every carrier inside the building is one more quote, with no civil works. 2 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 Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft Azure, OVHcloud, Meta, Netflix, Akamai, Cloudflare: they are present at the exchange point where one site in the city is a point of presence. Reaching your cloud over an exchange point rather than the public Internet changes latency, and above all the price of data egress.
Sites in this city are operated by companies outside US jurisdiction, hence outside the CLOUD Act.
A city has no electricity of its own: the sites in Basel 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 52.3% of its electricity from hydro (2025). The detail: hydro 52.3%, nuclear 29.9%, solar 12.1%, oil (fuel oil, diesel) 1.9%, bioenergy 1.6%, geothermal and other renewables 1.6%. Fossil fuels (coal, gas, oil) account for 2.3% of it. A kilowatt-hour there weighs 39 g of CO2, i.e. 11.7 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 1.4 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.
Since 1970, 0 earthquake of magnitude 5 or above has been recorded within 100 km of Basel, and 5 within 200 km. The strongest: magnitude 5.3 in 1978, 135 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 site's coordinates.
With a single listed site, Basel cannot support a disaster-recovery plan spread over two separate buildings within the same town. A second site remains necessary, and it is found in the nearby cities listed below. No rate is published by the operators in this city: pricing is on request, and we do not estimate it on their behalf.
The nearest site outside Basel is 4 km away, in Münchenstein (2 sites). Short distances matter: they drive the cost of a link between two buildings, and whether a backup site is workable.