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Return per MW for a colocation campus near Mumbai
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A developer plans a 20 MW colocation campus near Mumbai and reports in USD. It costs USD 10 million per MW of IT load to build, excluding the customers' servers. It expects to lease 90 percent of the capacity at an average rent of USD 150 per kW per month; customers pay for their own electricity on top. Operating costs that are not passed through (staff, maintenance, insurance, security) are USD 400,000 per MW of built capacity a year. What are yearly revenue and operating profit, the yield on cost, and the simple payback? (Figures are illustrative.)
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