Digital Realty Trust: External construction work on Digital Realty’s latest Frankfurt data center now complete

Digital Realty’s new data center, FRA33 facility in Hattersheim, Frankfurt, Germany, has now been completed, it has been announced. The new facility will reportedly offer 40MW of IT capacity spanning 16,000 square meters (172,222 sq ft) of white space. 

The construction firm that worked on the project announced that the shell and core construction work has been finished. The first phase, offering 10MW, is set to go live by the third quarter of 2023; full build-out is scheduled for Q4 2026.

"The topping-out ceremony for the first construction phase of our new data center FRA33 is an important milestone - not only for Digital Realty, but also for the business location Rhein-Main because we are creating space for sustainable digitization,” said Volker Ludwig, SVP and MD DACH at Digital Realty.

Digital operates more than 20 facilities across five sites in the Frankfurt area.