February 08, 2023 Germany / Deutschland
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...
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December 29, 2022 Germany / Deutschland
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...
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November 15, 2022 Germany / Deutschland
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 energy...
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November 04, 2022 Vantage Berlin BER1
Vantage Data Centers has opened three new facilities in Germany. The data center company announced the launch of these facilities in Frankfurt and Berlin. The new data centers see the company’s data center footprint in Germany rise by 72MW and 68,750 square meters (740,000 square feet). Vantage...
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October 27, 2022 Frankfurt
German energy company Mainova is moving into the data center business. The company broke ground on the new facility in Frankfurt, Germany. Mainova WebHouse, a subsidiary of the energy company, announced that a groundbreaking ceremony for the facility took place earlier in the month. The new data...
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October 14, 2022 NTT Berlin 2 (Marienpark)
NTT has opened a new data center campus in Berlin, Germany. The company announced that its Berlin 2 facility is now live. The facility is located at Lankwitzer Strasse 45-47 and currently houses two data centers. The facility will also provide an initial IT power of 24MW across 107,650 square...
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September 12, 2022 Germany / Deutschland
OVHcloud has announced that it has begun work on a new data center in Limburg, Germany, the company's second in the area. The facility, which will see an investment of around €100 million ($101m) over the next five years, will offer space for 40,000 servers on more than 6,000 square meters...
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August 08, 2022 Frankfurt
Frankfurt recently announced an updated plan for commercial developments in the city, which will place a limitation on cloud and colocation data center buildings. This comes as a response to concerns around their land and energy usage. Alongside this announcement, the city also outlined its...
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August 08, 2022 Germany / Deutschland
Deutsche Telekom has announced that it has signed a 150MW PPA with Statkraft and Power & Air Solutions, which will provide the company with energy from between 2023 to 2028. According to Statkraft, this deal means that 16 of its own wind farms that no longer receive EEG subsidies will...
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May 17, 2022 Frankfurt
Alibaba has announced that it opened a data center in Frankfurt, Germany. The new data center is the company’s third facility in the country. According to the company, the new data center will help support the increasing needs for digital transformation from customers across the European...
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February 07, 2022 Equinix Munich MU4
Equinix has announced the opening of a new facility in Ascheim, outside Munich, Germany. The company unveiled the opening of the International Business Exchange (IBX) called MU4. Equinix invested $90 million in the development of MU4’s first phase. The facility offers over 24,200 square feet...
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January 07, 2022 Digital Realty Frankfurt Campus
Interxion's latest data center in Frankfurt, Germany, FRA16, has been completed, it has announced. Located on the company's Ostend campus at Hanauer Landstrasse, the facility spans 4,800 sqm (51,600 sq ft) of white space, with a capacity of 16.5MW. The data center is expected to go live later...
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January 04, 2022 AWS EU Frankfurt Region (eu-central-1)
Amplitude has announced that it is expanding its data center footprint into Germany with a facility in Frankfurt. The data center, which is certified in ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II, will be hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS), for both its “privacy” and “security.” Speaking about its move into...
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November 22, 2021 CyrusOne Frankfurt V
CyrusOne has announced that it is expanding its data center footprint with the purchase of land in Hanau, East of Frankfurt. The company's plans outline that the facility will have an incoming power of 90MW and a critical power capacity of 63MW, once complete, spanning 18,000 sqm. According to...
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October 01, 2021 Equinix Frankfurt FR8
Equinix has announced the opening of its new data center facility in Frankfurt, Germany. The facility is located to the west of Frankfurt, and it would be known as FR8. The facility's first phase has 51,600 square feet (4,800 square meters) of colocation space available. Equinix also revealed...
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August 11, 2021 Digital Realty: Düsseldorf
Interxion is leasing 12,000 sqm (129,000 square feet) in Düsseldorf to expand its data center capacity in the city. The Company has been occupying the property on In der Steele 27-43 in west Germany for 20 years, and it is leasing more space there to expand its data centers. The owner of the...
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August 05, 2021 DATEV: Am Tower 5
DATEV has acquired q.beyond’s Nuremberg data center. Earlier in June, q.beyond (formerly QSC) initially announced its intention to sell its colocation business in June 2021. It operates three data centers in Nuremberg and Munich through its wholly-owned subsidiary, IP Exchange GmbH. The Nuremberg...
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July 08, 2021 Vantage Berlin BER1
As part of its ongoing $2 billion European expansion plan, Vantage Data Centers has broken ground on data center campuses in Berlin, Germany and Warsaw, Poland. As part of this expansion plan, the Company has opened facilities in locations in Wales and Germany. The Warsaw facility dubbed the WAW1...
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July 08, 2021 Iron Mountain Frankfurt FRA-2
Iron Mountain has announced it will buy Keppel’s 10MW Frankfurt data center for €76m ($90 million). The Keppel DC FRA1 facility was initially announced in 2016 and opened in 2018. Keppel also paid €76m in 2016 to acquire the facility. Keppel DC FRA1 is a two-story building with 20,000 square...
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May 14, 2021 Frankfurt
Frankfurt has proposed a development plan to regulate data centers in the area. The plan, it says, will prevent the “uncontrolled growth” of data centers. The city is the hub of the data center industry in Germany, and one of the four largest hubs in Europe, taking up 64 hectares (640,000 sqm) of...
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