nLighten Will Feed Waste Heat From its Stuttgart Data Center Into the Local District Heating Network
February 13, 2026
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| Distance | Site | About |
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| 0.00 miles | ITENOS Stuttgart | |
| 1.43 miles | AtlasEdge: Stuttgart GRP10 |
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| 1.89 miles | nexspace: Sternhöhe, Stuttgart |
Scheduled to launch in the summer of 2026, the nexspace data center at Campus Sternhöhe is a high-security underground facility designed to meet the booming demand for AI and real-time processing in Stuttgart's high-tech corridor.
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| 1.96 miles | Level3 Stuttgart | |
| 2.15 miles | euNetworks Stuttgart | |
| 4.29 miles | AtlasEdge: NB8 |
The data center covers an area of approximately 1600 square meters and is located in the heart of Stuttgart.
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| 4.66 miles | University of Stuttgart: HLRS III |
Construction is officially underway for HLRS III, a state-of-the-art supercomputing data center at the University of Stuttgart.
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| 7.89 miles | AtlasEdge: Böblingen |
AtlasEdge's STR001 data center, located in the Böblingen area of Stuttgart, Germany, is a modular facility spanning 10,000 square meters (107,640 sq ft).
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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.
nLighten has grown rapidly through both organic growth and strategic acquisitions:
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