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Germany’s Hauck Aufhäuser Lamp Privatbank to launch new data center fund

Germany’s Hauck Aufhäuser Lamp Privatbank announced that its real estate investment management unit is launching a €300 million fund for institutional investors, targeting data centers in major German cities. This is the company’s first-ever data center-focused fund. Patrick Brinker, head of ...

November 24, 2023

Germany / Deutschland

Hausbank München to relocate German data centers to Kyndryl premises

IT services firm Kyndryl announced this week that it will be helping German cooperative bank Hausbank München to relocate two of its data centers from on-premise facilities to Kyndryl’s own facilities in Frankfurt. Kyndryl will rebuild the dedicated server infrastructure, establish a moderniz...

November 10, 2023

Germany / Deutschland

Deutsche Telekom’s subsidiary signs solar energy in Germany

Power and Air Condition Solution Management GmbH (PASM), a wholly owned subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, has signed a long-term PPA with energy group EnBW. Following this 15-year agreement, PASM will offtake 100MW from the 960MW He Dreiht offshore wind farm in the North Sea. Construction of the...

November 08, 2023

Germany / Deutschland

Goodman says it has capacity for 3.7GW of data centers

Real estate group Goodman has over 3GW of potential data center capacity in its pipeline, according to a Q1 2024 operational update published yesterday. The company notes that this is an opportunity worth tens of billions of dollars as it outlines its ambitions for the data center space. The ...

November 07, 2023

Germany / Deutschland

Prea obtains authorization for 100MW Berlin data center

The construction of a 100MW data center in Berlin, Germany, has received planning approval. This week, the German consulting and services firm Prea announced that it has received approval to construct a new data center in Berlin in collaboration with the Dutch developer Van Caem.Four four-stor...

September 20, 2023

Berlin

CyrusOne plans expansion in Frankfurt with seventh data center campus

CyrusOne is set to develop another data center in Frankfurt, Germany. Named FRA7, this is the company’s seventh data center campus in Frankfurt. Construction is set to begin in the third quarter of 2024, with an expected delivery date of the second quarter of 2026. Based on a 63,000 sqm (678,1...

September 11, 2023

CyrusOne Frankfurt FRA7

Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS) finishes fit-out data center in Frankfurt, Germany

Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS)' data center fit-out in Frankfurt, Germany, is complete, it has announced. Called Frankfurt West, the facility consists of 14 data halls with a total IT capacity of 25MW. This is two fewer than originally planned.Mercury Engineering, the main contractor on ...

August 08, 2023

Colt Frankfurt West

Further details released about 60MW four-story data center campus planned in Berlin

Further details have been released regarding Van Caem's Berlin data center plans. The company has partnered with Prea Group for a 60MW four-story data center campus near Rhinstraße 139 in Berlin-Lichtenberg. Named Bluestar, the campus will see an investment of €1 billion ($1bn) and will be th...

July 11, 2023

Germany / Deutschland

Van Caem shares plans for €1 billion data center in Berlin

Van Caem, a Dutch developer, has shared its plans to develop a 100MW data center in Germany on a brownfield site near Rhinstraße 139 in Berlin-Lichtenberg. With an investment of €1 billion ($1bn), the facility is set to be the fifth largest in the country and the largest in Berlin.Earlier desi...

June 23, 2023

Germany / Deutschland

Data Center Constructed in Germany Using 3D Printing

A 3D-printed data facility will be built in Heidelberg, Germany. Heidelberg iT Management, a cloud and data center operator, said this month that it would employ the "largest 3D-printed building in Europe" as a server hotel by the end of 2023. The project is led by Kraus Group, Peri 3D Constru...

May 12, 2023

Germany / Deutschland

Goodman plans for 100MW powered shell in Frankfurt, Germany

Goodman has announced its plans to develop a data center in Frankfurt, Germany, following the purchase of a 4.5-hectare brownfield plot that used to be a newspaper printing plant. Located in Neu-Isenburg, south of Frankfurt, the development would see the creation of a 100MVA-powered shell faci...

April 21, 2023

Germany / Deutschland

AtlasEdge forms partnership with PacketFabric

Atlas Edge has announced that it has partnered with PacketFabric, to expand cloud access across its network. The strategic partnership will see the company’s facilities connect to PacketFabric’s TruNaas Converge Platform, which will reportedly allow AtlasEdge customers to access PacketFabric’s...

April 05, 2023

Berlin

HOCHTIEF and Palladio Partners to build and operate sustainable data center in Heiligenhaus, Germany

HOCHTIEF and infrastructure investor Palladio Partners have announced they have partnered to jointly build and operate a sustainable data center in Heiligenhaus, located in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Work on the 9,000-square-meter site in the Heiligenhaus Innovation Park is to commence t...

March 30, 2023

Germany / Deutschland

nLighten to provide waste heat to City of Eschborn

Joining the swathe of data center operators pushing forward circular economy principles, nLighten recently signed a Letter of Intent with the City of Eschborn and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmBH (GIZ) to provide its data center waste-heat for reuse. The company...

March 27, 2023

Germany / Deutschland

Germany's Onlime Teleport Has Been Acquired by Data Grid Network

Data Grid Network has purchased a teleport outside of Hannover, Germany. This week, Data Grid, a Commercis firm, revealed that it had acquired the TechnoPark facility between the villages of Hamelin and Aerzen and teleport operator Onlime GmbH. The Talia Communications division of Commercis wi...

March 20, 2023

Germany / Deutschland

Deutsche Telekom deploys 300MWh battery storage rollout

Deutsche Telekom has announced its plans to rollout battery energy storage systems across Germany. The company has outlined that the systems will support 300MWh.The first system, which is a 1MW/6MWh unit, has already been deployed at Deutsche Telekom's head office in Munich. This is part of th...

February 23, 2023

Germany / Deutschland

LEW TelNet to build new green data center in Augsburg

LEW TelNet has announced the construction of a new green data center in Augsburg, Germany, which will operate with a PUE of 1.2. Work on the facility, which is located on Oskar-von-Miller-Strasse, will begin in summer 2023, with the first phase of the two-phase project going live mid-next year...

February 15, 2023

Germany / Deutschland

German Edge Data Center Company nLighten Launched by I squared Capital

I Squared Capital's latest portfolio company, nLighten, is introducing an Edge network in Germany. This week, the company disclosed plans for a formal debut in Germany across 10 sites later this year. Exa Infrastructure, another I Squared Capital venture, sold its initial data centers to nLigh...

February 08, 2023

Germany / Deutschland

New data center joint venture, Data Castle, launches

Data Castle, a new data center joint venture between Angelo Gordon and data center development management company DCD Data Center Developers, has announced plans to build and operate facilities in Germany. The JV will begin work on its plans in the town of Schwalbach am Taunus, just outside of...

December 29, 2022

Germany / Deutschland

Germany's Energy Efficiency Act and what it could mean for the data center industry

The German Federal Ministry for the Economy recently presented a draft for an "Act to Enhance Energy Efficiency, Improve Climate Protection and Implement EU Legislation," named the Energy Efficiency Act (ENEfG). This bill has been proposed with the aim of saving 500 Terawatt hours (TWh) of ene...

November 15, 2022

Germany / Deutschland

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