Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS) aims to develop four new data centers in Germany.

The company this week announced plans for Frankfurt 4 & 5 and Berlin 1 & 2.

The two Frankfurt data centers will be built on an 18-acre site east of Frankfurt in Wiesbaden and provide a combined 63MW, while the Berlin data centers will be constructed on a 9.5-acre site 10km east of the capital and provide a total 54MW of IT capacity.

Frankfurt 4 and Berlin 1 are due to go live by the end of 2028.

Niclas Sanfridsson, CEO of Colt DCS, said: “The continued growth in digital services has created strong demand for hyperscale data centers in Germany. Our acquisitions in Frankfurt and Berlin are a testament to our commitment to Europe’s largest economy.”

The new data centers will add 117MW to Colt DCS’ capacity in Germany, bringing its total in-country capacity to 176MW.

The company said it would be investing €2 billion in the projects. The facilities will feature hybrid air and liquid (direct-to-chip) cooling and will be able to offer densities of up to 130kW per rack. Waste heat from all the sites will be reused by the local councils for district heating.

Gert-Uwe Mende, Lord Mayor of Wiesbaden, added: “Wiesbaden is an attractive business location, and artificial intelligence is an absolutely future-oriented topic. I am therefore very pleased that Colt DCS has chosen the Landeshauptstadt (capital of the state of Hessen) as the site for its new data center.”

Spun off from Colt Technology Services in 2015, Colt DCS’s data center portfolio includes 13 operational facilties, with an additional nine in development across 11 cities in the UK, Europe, and the APAC region.

The company currently has three German data centers, all three located in Frankfurt. Its “Frankfurt City” data center offers 2.4MW of capacity.

In the works since 2019, Colt DCS completed the fit-out of Frankfurt West in August 2023; the facility offers 25MW of capacity across 14 data halls. Frankfurt West was fully pre-let as of September 2020 by unnamed hyperscale customers.

Ground was broken on the Colt’s third Frankfurt facility, offering 32.4MW, in November 2023.

In November 2021, Colt sold a portfolio of 12 non-hyperscale facilities across Europe to AtlasEdge, including German sites in Berlin and Hamburg. A year later, it acquired ten new parcels of land across Europe and APAC for new data center developments, including in Frankfurt.