German IT services firm Netmountains has launched a new data center in Velbert.

Company founder and CEO Alexander Hanke recently announced the opening of the facility on LinkedIn.

“A special moment for us – it was a long way from the initial concept to implementation,” he said. “Now we can proudly say: Velbert has one of the most modern and sustainable data centers in Germany!”

The VEL1 and VEL2 facility, located at Industriestraße 76, features direct-to-chip liquid cooling (in VEL2), as well as air cooling (in VEL1). The first phase includes capacity for 100 racks.

First announced last year as part of a relocation from Ratingen, the data center was originally due to launch in April 2025.

Local IT services firm Thold-IT is a named customer of the site.

Velbert is a town in the district of Mettmann, located between Essen and Düsseldorf in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Founded in 2017, Netmountains offers hosting, cloud, communications, security, and colocation services. Within Germany, the company operates out of facilities in Düsseldorf (x4), Frankfurt, Falkenstein, and Nuremberg (the latter two in Hetzner data centers). It also lists sites in Helsinki, Finland, and Ashburn, Virginia.

A retrofit of an existing building, brewery equipment firm Malek Brautech was previously based out of Industriestraße 76.