nLighten Hamburg HAM1

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Operational

Fully operational facility

Hamburg

Metro
Germany / Deutschland

Country
Western Europe

Region
Europe

Region
EMEA

Region

nLighten Hamburg HAM1

Short Code: HAM1

PUE: 1.29

Total Power

SqFt

Gross Colocation Size

The data center is located just off the A1 motorway, 15 minutes from Hamburg’s main train station, and 30 minutes by car from Hamburg Airport.

Map and Nearby Locations

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nLighten Sites

Nearby Facilities

Sites within 15 miles of nLighten Hamburg HAM1

Distance	Site	About
6.70 miles	NorthC: Hamburg 1	Initially established by Level 3 Communications, the facility transitioned through the ownership of CenturyLink and Lumen Technologies before being acquired by Colt Technology Services.
6.87 miles	Portus: IPHH 3	The IPHH3 colocation edge facility, located in Hamburg, was launched in 2019.
6.87 miles	GlobalConnect Hamburg (HAM3)
6.88 miles	Portus: IPHH 2
6.88 miles	euNetworks Hamburg
6.88 miles	IPHH Wendenstraße
6.92 miles	Portus: IPHH 4	The facility will span 6,380 square meters, consisting of two buildings, each 3,190 square meters, located on land next to the existing IPHH3 data center.
6.94 miles	Global Connect Hamburg
7.10 miles	ITENOS Hamburg
9.66 miles	q.beyond: Hamburg Data Harbour	The Hamburg Data Harbour, operated by q.beyond, is a TÜV and ISO-certified data center complex in Hamburg with advanced infrastructure connecting its facilities.
11.46 miles	Penta Infra: HAM01
11.46 miles	Penta Infra: Hamburg	Located in Hamburg, Germany, Penta Infra's colocation data center provides 2,500 sqm (26,910 sq ft) of white space.
11.49 miles	AtlasEdge: HAM001	AtlasEdge HAM001 Data Centre is located just 2.5 kilometre away from the nearest major airport, and connected via bus just 200 metre from this site.
12.70 miles	NTT Hamburg 1
12.81 miles	GlobalConnect Hamburg (HAM1)
12.86 miles	Level3 Hamburg (Flughafenstraße)
13.29 miles	Equinix Hamburg HH1
13.71 miles	dataR: Rellingen, Hamburg	German firm dataR has officially begun construction of its Hamburg data center located in Rellingen. The facility will offer 5MW across 4,900 sqm (52,745 sq ft) of technical space.
18.96 miles	AtlasEdge: HAM002	Datacenter One (DC1), the German colocation company acquired by AtlasEdge in 2023, announced the opening of a new data center.

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Operating Company

nLighten is a digital infrastructure platform owned by I Squared Capital, a leading global infrastructure investor. The company is developing innovative edge data centers distributed across European key economic hubs to provide best-in-class network access to regional, national, and global enterprises, private users, and the mobile workforce. Through the strategic distribution of its edge data centers, nLighten is working towards establishing a pan-European presence in all major cities and providing access to low latency and proximity to end users across Europe.
The edge data centers developed by nLighten are designed to meet the increasing demand for faster and more reliable data processing and storage, while also being mindful of environmental impact. nLighten was founded in 2021 by a core team with many years of experience and wide-ranging expertise in the data center sector. The team's main motivation was to create the next step for the data center industry and align edge data centers with the green transition.

nLighten's goal is to build and operate the leading pan-European edge data center platform. The company's focus on strategic locations, low latency, and environmental consciousness positions it as an innovative player in the European digital infrastructure landscape.

Expansion and Acquisitions

nLighten has grown rapidly through both organic growth and strategic acquisitions:

In June 2023, the company acquired Euclyde Data Centers, a French regional platform with six carrier-neutral data centers.
In September 2023, nLighten completed the acquisition of Proximity Data Centers, a leading UK edge platform with ten carrier-neutral data centers.
The company also acquired 10 carrier data center sites from its sister company Exa Infrastructure.

Facilities

67MW

Megawatts

News See all

nLighten Secures Major Geneva Data Center Services Contract

May 07, 2026 nLighten

The canton of Geneva, Switzerland, has signed a new data center colocation agreement with nLighten. As detailed in a tender issued by the Geneva Cantonal Office for Information Systems and Digital Technology (OCSIN), the 10-year contract with the European operator’s Swiss subsidiary is worth CHF...

nLighten Will Feed Waste Heat From its Stuttgart Data Center Into the Local District Heating Network

February 13, 2026 nLighten

European Edge data center developer nLighten has signed a deal to connect one of its data centers in the German city of Stuttgart to the city’s district heating network.“The excess heat project with nLighten creates an added value for everyone involved: it delivers climate-friendly heat for our...