Wallmenroth, March 14, 2022 - Süwag Energie AG, Data Center Group GmbH and noris network AG are planning to build a jointly operated data center in the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main metropolitan region. The new data center will offer colocation and IT services. The three partners are to hold equal shares in the company, which is yet to be founded.
The construction of the new FRA1 data center in Hofheim-Marxheim with a site area of around 11,000 square meters follows the growing demand for highly available and secure as well as energy-efficient data centers and professional IT services in the Rhine-Main metropolitan region in Germany as a business location. The data center is expected to reach a connected load of 30 megavolt amperes in its final stage of development and go into operation in 2025. In addition to providing IT space, the three partners plan to offer hardware-related IT services and other professional IT services. Each of the companies will contribute its respective know-how from the data center business - from the planning to the operation and sales phase. All participants will thus benefit from the expertise of the other partners.
Ecological sustainability is already taken into account in the planning of the highly available and energy-efficient data center so that the project can contribute to the energy transition. For example, the use of waste heat for a local heating network is planned, as are grid-serving energy services or the design of the emergency power generators for synthetic fuels.
For the companies involved, the planned joint venture represents an excellent opportunity to offer customers a new data center location and first-class IT services from the Rhine-Main region. Board member Dr. Markus Coenen from regional energy supplier Süwag, Frankfurt am Main, justifies the commitment with an increasing demand for data centers in Germany: "The Rhine-Main metropolitan region is the European center for digital infrastructures. With the planned construction and operation of a state-of-the-art and sustainable data center together with two established partner companies, Süwag wants to expand its range of services in the area of digitization and sustainability and at the same time create the conditions for additional value creation in the region."
Ralf Siefen, founder and CEO of the Data Center Group in Wallmenroth, comments on the initiative as follows:
"Modern future-oriented applications, sophisticated communication infrastructures and operational as well as emergency concepts place special demands on the planning of data centers. We are looking forward to the groundbreaking ceremony and to once again demonstrating our many years of expertise in the development, planning and construction of efficient, sustainable data centers certified to the latest standards."
Florian Sippel, COO at noris network, also emphasizes the synergy effects: „After more than 25 years of noris network, I am delighted ft h able to jointly build and operate a data center in the Rhine-Main region with two strong partners from Germany. The planned construction ft he data center in the Rhine-Main area ft he logical consequence ft he ongoing success with our highly secure and highly available data centers in Nuremberg, Munich and Hof and also enables us to offer cloud and IT services in the Rhine-Main area.“
Data Center Group
With its six business units, the Data Center Group bundles the complete IT infrastructure expertise for high availability, security and cost-effectiveness under one roof.
The range of services extends from consulting and planning to professional structural implementation and professional operation and service of the data center. All five business units work closely together and in coordination with each other, thus covering the entire value chain for their customers. With this portfolio, the Data Center Group is unique on the German market.
Customers benefit from the synergies of the individual business units to realize comprehensive and flexible solutions for efficient, sustainable, future-proof IT infrastructures tested to the highest standards. With EN 50600, ISO 27001, ECB-S, TÜV TSI and Uptime Tier certifications, these meet the highest security requirements of the market.
Through a permanent know-how transfer, versatile practical knowledge and short distances, the Data Center Group creates maximum added value for every company from a wide range of industries as well as the public sector.
Data Center Group, press contact: Sonja Philipp
Phone: 02741 9321 162, e-mail: marketing@datacenter-group.com, homepage: www.datacenter-group.de
Süwag Energie AG
Süwag Energie AG is a stock corporation with municipal participation. The almost 5,200 square kilometer supply area of Süwag and its subsidiaries is spread over four federal states: Hesse, Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Bavaria. It has a multi-regional structure and is close to its customers with numerous locations - true to its promise: My power locally. Süwag employs around 1,800 people and is currently training around 100 apprentices.
"Greener, more regional and more digital" is Süwag's strategy for shaping the energy supply of the future. This includes green grids, green products and green generation. In the next few years, the Group will invest an additional 100 million euros in the expansion of "green" or decentralized generation plants - preferably from biomass, wind, solar and hydropower - and "green" grids. And it will do so exclusively in its own regions. There, Süwag and its subsidiaries already generate around 250 million kWh of "green" electricity exclusively from renewable or decentralized energy generation plants.
Süwag Energie AG, press contact: Tanja Ackermann
Phone: 069 3107-2609, e-mail: presse@suewag.de, homepage: www.suewag.com
noris network AG
The Nuremberg-based noris network AG offers companies and organizations with a focus on the banking/insurance, automotive/industry, software development and public administration sectors customized ICT solutions in the areas of IT outsourcing, managed services, cloud services and network & security. The technological basis is a high-performance IT infrastructure with noris network's own high-security data centers - including Nuremberg South and Munich East, two of the most modern and energy-efficient data centers in Europe. In addition to customer-specific solutions and services for classic and virtualized IT infrastructures, noris network offers PaaS provisioning on its own cloud platforms and, with Managed Kubernetes, also services for the automated scaling of resources (containers). The company combines further, standardized premium data center products under the datacenter.de brand.
noris network AG and its entire business activities are certified for their consistent quality and security in service and information security management in accordance with ISO/IEC 20000-1, ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO 9001. In the field of "Security Management for Buildings", noris network is the first data center operator to be certified in accordance with VdS Guideline 3406. In addition, the maximum availability, protection and energy efficiency classes of the Munich East data center have been confirmed in accordance with EN 50600. The Nuremberg Central and Nuremberg South data centers, as well as Munich East, have received the ISO 27001 certificate based on IT-Grundschutz from the BSI. Other certificates held by the IT service provider include PCI DSS, TISAX and ISO 140001 Environmental Management. Founded in 1993, noris network AG is one of the German pioneers in the field of modern IT services and today supports renowned companies such as adidas AG, Consorsbank, Flughafen Nürnberg GmbH, Firmengruppe Max Bögl, Küchen Quelle GmbH, Schmetterling Reisen GmbH & Co. KG, Teambank AG and many more.
noris network AG, press contact: Kirsten Meier
Phone: 0911 9352-0, E-mail: kirsten.meier@noris.de, Homepage: www.noris.de
