Hamburg is northern Germany’s main datacenter market and a natural interconnection point toward Scandinavia: subsea routes across the North and Baltic Seas land nearby, and the metro serves as a lower-cost, lower-density alternative to Frankfurt for workloads that do not need the FLAP interconnection depth.
The inventory mixes established city sites with newer builds in the wider metropolitan area. Buyers typically land here for regional German coverage, Nordic connectivity or diversity from Frankfurt — the two metros pair well in a two-site German setup, with meaningfully different risk profiles and price points.
Germany-wide considerations apply: energy-efficiency obligations for operators, strong data-protection expectations, and grid-connection lead times that reward early verification of committed power. The snapshot below shows how Hamburg’s listed facilities compare on power, cooling and certifications.
Market snapshot
Aggregated from operator data for the Hamburg Metro area. Counts reflect facilities that report each attribute.
- Facilities
- 33
- Operators
- 22
- Available now
- 1
- Max rack density
- 15 kW/rack
- Power bands
- 1-5MW (3) · <1MW (2) · 5-20MW (1)
- Cooling
- Air cooling (24) · Free cooling (10) · Liquid-ready (2) · Air + indirect cooling (1)
- Common certifications
- ISO 27001 (28) · ISO 50001 (11) · ISO 9001 (11) · EN 50600 (10) · ISAE 3402 (9)
akquinet outsourcing gGmbH · Hamburg · Hamburg Metro · Germany
On request- Certs
- TÜViT TSI +2
akquinet outsourcing gGmbH · Hamburg · Hamburg Metro · Germany
On request- Tier
- III
- Cooling
- Air cooling
- Certs
- ISO 27001 +2
akquinet outsourcing gGmbH · Hamburg · Hamburg Metro · Germany
On request- Tier
- III
- Cooling
- Air cooling, Liquid-ready
- Density
- 15 kW/rack
- Certs
- ISO 27001 +2
akquinet outsourcing gGmbH · Norderstedt · Hamburg Metro · Germany
On request- Tier
- III
- Cooling
- Air cooling
- Certs
- TÜViT TSI +4
Artfiles New Media GmbH · Hamburg · Hamburg Metro · Germany
On request- Tier
- III
- Power
- <1MW
- Cooling
- Air cooling
- Density
- 5 kW/rack
- Certs
- ISO 27001
AtlasEdge · Hamburg · Hamburg Metro · Germany
On request- Tier
- III
- Certs
- ISO 27001 +3
AtlasEdge · Ahrensburg · Hamburg Metro · Germany
On request- Tier
- III
- Power
- 5-20MW
- Certs
- ISO 27001 +4
CANCOM · Hamburg · Hamburg Metro · Germany
On request- Cooling
- Air cooling
- Certs
- ISO 27001 +7
iptoX GmbH · Hamburg · Hamburg Metro · Germany
On request- Power
- 1-5MW
EXA Infrastructure · Hamburg · Hamburg Metro · Germany
On requestUnknown (Wikidata) · Hamburg · Hamburg Metro · Germany
Closed to new customers- Cooling
- Free cooling, Direct-to-chip
- Certs
- ISO 50001
GlobalConnect · Hamburg · Hamburg Metro · Germany
On request- Tier
- III
- Cooling
- Air cooling
- Certs
- ISO 27001 +1
GlobalConnect · Hamburg · Hamburg Metro · Germany
On request- Tier
- III
- Cooling
- Air cooling
- Certs
- ISO 27001 +1
GlobalConnect · Hamburg · Hamburg Metro · Germany
On request- Tier
- III
- Cooling
- Air cooling
- Certs
- ISO 27001 +1
GlobalConnect · Hamburg · Hamburg Metro · Germany
On request- Tier
- III
- Cooling
- Air cooling
- Certs
- ISO 27001 +1
Wieske's Crew GmbH · Hamburg · Hamburg Metro · Germany
On request- Cooling
- Air cooling
ITENOS GmbH · Hamburg · Hamburg Metro · Germany
On request- Tier
- III
- Cooling
- Air cooling
- Certs
- ISO 27001 +8
ITENOS GmbH · Ahrensburg · Hamburg Metro · Germany
On request- Tier
- III
- Cooling
- Air cooling, Free cooling
- Density
- 10 kW/rack
- Certs
- ISO 27001 +9
LYNET Kommunikation AG · Hamburg · Hamburg Metro · Germany
On requestn@work GmbH · Hamburg · Hamburg Metro · Germany
On request- Tier
- III
- Cooling
- Air cooling, Free cooling
- Certs
- ISO 27001 +1
n@work Internet Informationssysteme GmbH · Hamburg · Hamburg Metro · Germany
On request- Tier
- III
- Cooling
- Air cooling, Free cooling
- Certs
- ISO 27001
n@work Internet Informationssysteme GmbH · Hamburg · Hamburg Metro · Germany
On request- Tier
- III
- Cooling
- Air cooling, Free cooling
- Certs
- ISO 27001 +1
nLighten HQ BV · Hamburg · Hamburg Metro · Germany
On request- Tier
- III
- Cooling
- Air cooling
- Density
- 15 kW/rack
- Certs
- ISO 27001
NorthC Group B.V. · Hamburg · Hamburg Metro · Germany
On request- Tier
- II
- Power
- 1-5MW
- Certs
- ISO 27001
NTT DATA, Inc. · Hamburg · Hamburg Metro · Germany
On request- Tier
- III
- Power
- <1MW
- Cooling
- Air cooling, Free cooling
- Certs
- ISO 9001 +5
Penta C.V. · Hamburg · Hamburg Metro · Germany
On request- Tier
- III
- Power
- 1-5MW
- Certs
- ISO 27001 +6
PlusServer GmbH · Hamburg · Hamburg Metro · Germany
On request- Tier
- III
- Cooling
- Air cooling
- Density
- 10.5 kW/rack
- Certs
- ISO 27001 +4
Portus Data Centers · Hamburg · Hamburg Metro · Germany
On request- Tier
- III
- Cooling
- Air cooling, Air + indirect cooling, Free cooling
- Certs
- ISO 27001 +2
Portus Data Centers · Hamburg · Hamburg Metro · Germany
On request- Tier
- III
- Cooling
- Air cooling, Free cooling
- Certs
- ISO 27001 +1
q.beyond AG · Hamburg · Hamburg Metro · Germany
On request- Tier
- III
- Cooling
- Air cooling
- Certs
- ISO 27001 +7
q.beyond AG · Hamburg · Hamburg Metro · Germany
On request- Cooling
- Air cooling
- Certs
- ISO 27001 +8
Stadtwerke Norderstedt · Norderstedt · Hamburg Metro · Germany
On request- Tier
- II
- Cooling
- Air cooling, Free cooling, Liquid-ready
- Density
- 5 kW/rack
- Certs
- ISO 27001 +4
wilhelm.tel GmbH · Norderstedt · Hamburg Metro · Germany
On request- Tier
- II
- Cooling
- Air cooling, Free cooling
- Density
- 5 kW/rack
- Certs
- ISO 27001 +1