Data center company buys Campus: The Frankfurter Straße, the big refrigerators

The city of Frankfurt to the unrestrained growth course located in the industry of data center operators, like "clusters". Meanwhile, companies in this indust

Data center company buys Campus: The Frankfurter Straße, the big refrigerators

The city of Frankfurt to the unrestrained growth course located in the industry of data center operators, like "clusters". Meanwhile, companies in this industry continue to create facts. Interxion announces the purchase of its data center Campus at the Hanauer landstraße in Frankfurt. There, the German Headquarters of the Dutch company, which is listed on the stock exchange and the group Digital Realty is heard. The 43,000 square metres of site includes nine data centers. They are home to, among other things, high-performance computer of the operator of the largest Internet node in the world, De-Cix.

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40 percent of the Campus are currently 21 customers with an average remaining lease term of approximately four years leased. "After the expiry of the leases, the site is accessed expected to be of Interxion for the creation of additional data center capacity", - stated in the message of Interxion. A kilometre further West, the company is planning another project on a larger surface.

In the neighborhood for more properties of this type of Interxion are. The company now owns all of the 15 data centers at the Main, as you report. Like its competitors, it ensures, as a rule, uninterruptible power supply and cooling of the building. This is necessary because the computer to emit a lot of heat. Datacenter also be referred to with a wink as large refrigerators. Your demand for electricity is enormous. Such a property is filtered off, commonly referred to as much electricity as a small town.

Datacenter instead of a tool-maker?

The Metropolitan data centre of Interxion in the Hanauer landstraße, the company is making in addition to E-Shelter in Rödelheim and competitors Equinix, has spread to several locations across the city on the Main, the major providers of land for high-performance computers of customers from all possible sectors of the economy. This includes Telecom and Internet companies as well as retailers, insurers, banks, industrial companies, Gaming providers, and increasingly also medium-sized companies, as it is called in the industry. Also, Equinix has just announced new faces in Frankfurt.

Frankfurt hosted to an on-Board step-study years ago, a quarter of all large Datacenter in Germany, meanwhile, are likely to it in view of the growth even more. So, too, Telehouse has created the kleyerstrasse further so-called Co-Location space. In a commercial area in the district of Sossenheim has emerged in the past few years, the most recent data center facility in Frankfurt. The latest speculation is that from the tool, Bauer, Günter & co. occupied the site at the Eschborner landstraße in Rödelheim is likely to go to a Datacenter operator. In the immediate vicinity of the Campus of E-Shelter is located.

Date Of Update: 14 July 2020, 15:20