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Read Avacon & enviaM partner to develop new facility in Hanover, Germany
Avacon & enviaM partner to develop new facility in Hanover, Germany

Avacon & enviaM partner to develop new facility in Hanover, Germany

December 26, 2023 Germany / Deutschland

Engineering firm Avacon Group and regional energy provider enviaM Group have patnered to develop a data center in the Sehnde-Ost industrial area of Hanover, Germany. This facility will span 2,000 square meters and will potentially house 28,000 servers. The data center is being developed by a...

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

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

November 24, 2023 Germany / Deutschland

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 real...

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Read Hausbank München to relocate German data centers to Kyndryl premises
Hausbank München to relocate German data centers to Kyndryl premises

Hausbank München to relocate German data centers to Kyndryl premises

November 10, 2023 Germany / Deutschland

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 modernized...

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Read Deutsche Telekom’s subsidiary signs solar energy in Germany
Deutsche Telekom’s subsidiary signs solar energy in Germany

Deutsche Telekom’s subsidiary signs solar energy in Germany

November 08, 2023 Germany / Deutschland

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...

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Read Goodman says it has capacity for 3.7GW of data centers
Goodman says it has capacity for 3.7GW of data centers

Goodman says it has capacity for 3.7GW of data centers

November 07, 2023 Germany / Deutschland

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...

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

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

July 11, 2023 Germany / Deutschland

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 the...

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

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

June 23, 2023 Germany / Deutschland

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 design...

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Read Data Center Constructed in Germany Using 3D Printing
Data Center Constructed in Germany Using 3D Printing

Data Center Constructed in Germany Using 3D Printing

May 12, 2023 Germany / Deutschland

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...

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Read Goodman plans for 100MW powered shell in Frankfurt, Germany
Goodman plans for 100MW powered shell in Frankfurt, Germany

Goodman plans for 100MW powered shell in Frankfurt, Germany

April 21, 2023 Germany / Deutschland

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...

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

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

March 30, 2023 Germany / Deutschland

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 this...

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Read nLighten to provide waste heat to City of Eschborn
nLighten to provide waste heat to City of Eschborn

nLighten to provide waste heat to City of Eschborn

March 27, 2023 Germany / Deutschland

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 is...

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

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

March 20, 2023 Germany / Deutschland

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 will...

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Read Deutsche Telekom deploys 300MWh battery storage rollout
Deutsche Telekom deploys 300MWh battery storage rollout

Deutsche Telekom deploys 300MWh battery storage rollout

February 23, 2023 Germany / Deutschland

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 the...

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Read LEW TelNet to build new green data center in Augsburg
LEW TelNet to build new green data center in Augsburg

LEW TelNet to build new green data center in Augsburg

February 15, 2023 Germany / Deutschland

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....

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Read German Edge Data Center Company nLighten Launched by I squared Capital
German Edge Data Center Company nLighten Launched by I squared Capital

German Edge Data Center Company nLighten Launched by I squared Capital

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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Read New data center joint venture, Data Castle, launches
New data center joint venture, Data Castle, launches

New data center joint venture, Data Castle, launches

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

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

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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Read OVH begins work on its new data center near Frankfurt, Germany
OVH begins work on its new data center near Frankfurt, Germany

OVH begins work on its new data center near Frankfurt, Germany

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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Read Deutsche Telekom signs 150MW PPA
Deutsche Telekom signs 150MW PPA

Deutsche Telekom signs 150MW PPA

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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