Data Center Campus
OVHcloud's Strasbourg (SBG) campus sits on former ArcelorMittal port land in the Port du Rhin zone, on the Rhine facing Kehl. A 2021 fire destroyed one building and ended another; two buildings run today. First built in 2012, with expansions through 2022.
OVHcloud's Strasbourg campus is at 9 rue du Bassin de l'Industrie, in the Port du Rhin industrial zone of the Port autonome de Strasbourg. It sits on a quay between the Bassin de l'Industrie and the Rhine rail yards, about 1 km from the German border at Kehl.
Land. OVH took over ArcelorMittal's port concession on the former ArcelorMittal (ex-PAB Est) plot and built its first container data centers there. In 2018 it leased the adjacent land with an option to buy. The fenced site covers about 1.3 ha across cadastral parcels HZ 193 and part of HZ 203.
Power and infrastructure. Strasbourg Électricité Réseaux supplies the site over two redundant 20 kV feeds into two customer-owned 20 MW substations. OVH added the second, independent feed after a November 2017 outage. Standby power comes from 15 diesel generator sets registered under a May 2022 prefectural order (32.5 MW thermal maximum, two sets redundant). A borehole is permitted for 172,000 m³ a year for OVH's watercooling.
2021 fire. On 10 March 2021 a fire that began in an energy room destroyed one building and damaged a neighbouring one. The French industrial-accident bureau (BEA-RI) published its investigation in 2022. OVH responded with its "hyper-resilience" design: masonry-compartmented rooms, gas suppression, and battery and energy rooms outside the data halls. Its first building of that design opened on the campus with France's economy minister.
Expansion. In November 2025 OVHcloud announced €160-180 million to convert vacant ArcelorMittal buildings in the Port autonome into a new data center.
Buildings
| Site | Operator | Status | Operational | Building Size | Built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OVH: SBG3 | OVH Group |
Operational
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░░░ Request Dataset MW | ░░░░░░ Request Dataset SqFt | 2018 |
| OVH: SBG1 | OVH Group |
Decommissioned
|
— | — | 2021 |
| OVH: SBG2 | OVH Group |
Decommissioned
|
— | — | 2021 |
| OVH: SBG5 | OVH Group |
Operational
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░░░ Request Dataset MW | ░░░░░░ Request Dataset SqFt | 2022 |
OVH is a French cloud computing company that offers VPS, dedicated servers and other web services. The company was founded in 1999 by the Klaba family and is headquartered in Roubaix, France.
September 26, 2022 OVH: SBG5
OVHcloud has announced opening of a new facility on the Strasbourg site ravaged by fire in 2021. The new data center named SBG5 cost the company €30 million ($30.5m). SBG5 data center is equipped with an automatic fire extinguishing system. Although this system is standard among modern data...
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March 10, 2021 OVH: SBG5
A fire destroyed SBG2 and part of SBG1 data centers in Strasbourg, France. The facilities are part of a data center campus owned by OVH Cloud, a French cloud computing company. The fire destroyed completely destroyed SBG2 and 4 rooms out of 12 in the adjacent SBG1 data center. At this time, it is...
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