GIC-owned logistics firm planning large development at former army barracks west of Frankfurt
European logistics real estate firm P3 Logistic Parks is planning a large data center campus on the site of a former army barracks in Hanu
The company announced this week that it had taken over the former Großauheim barracks in Hanau
outside Frankfurt from the Bundesanstalt für Immobilienaufgaben (Institute for Federal Real Estate) and plans to develop the P3 Datacenter Hanau data center campus on the 250,000 sqm (2.7 million sq ft) site
Terms of the land acquisition were not shared
nor was the timeline for the first phase to go live
Construction will take place in several phases
with at least eight data center modules on a building area of around 200,000 sqm (2.1 million sq ft) to be built over a period of ten years; the site will have an electrical supply of 180MW
P3 said the on-spec campus will be built and operated sustainably and supplied with 100 percent green electricity
The barracks – vacant since 2008 – will be decontaminated and will see the existing building stock materials recycled and reused for groundworks
Construction of a combined heat and power plant by Gemeinschaftskraftwerk Hanau GmbH & Co
KG is also planned on the campus to provide a district heating supply for Hanau from 2024
A transformer station is also being built on the project site by the local grid operator
managing director of P3 Logistic Parks Germany
said: "The e-commerce boom and increasing teleworking are making it ever more clear how important data centers are for us all
advancing digitalization is not possible and the need to meet this demand with a green alternative is enormous
We are delighted to be able to develop this future-proof solution
This appears to be P3's first data center development; the company is the latest in a number of logistics & warehouse industrial real estate firms looking to move into the data center space
and others are also looking to develop facilities in the US
added: "Our project in Hanau will be one of the largest data center campuses in Europe
The exciting question we have tackled is: how can we reconcile a large-scale data center with the challenges of climate change
I am particularly proud that we found a trend-setting solution in collaboration with the city of Hanau
The project will have no negative impact on the land balance of the Rhine-Main area
as it is an already sealed area formerly used for military purposes."
After World War II, the city of Hanau was one of the largest American military bases in Europe. Originally built as a depot and taken over by the US at the end of WWII, the Grossauheim barracks (also known as Großauheim Kaserne) span approximately 38.5 hectares. Since the end of 2008, properties in Hanau used by the American armed forces with a total area of approx. 340 hectares have been vacated and available for development
added: "The development of the former Großauheim barracks into a data center campus that is also very large by international standards
represents for us the centerpiece of the implementation of our data center strategy
The joint development and binding definition of sustainability goals above the generally accepted level – for example
half of the energy will be fed from local renewable sources – was particularly important to us
also due to the size of the campus when construction is completed."
P3 was supported in the brokerage of the property by CBRE
A&T Industrial & Logistics division
Legal advice on the purchase was provided by the law firm Noerr
Google is developing a data center in Hanau as part of an expansion to its Frankurt cloud region
Data Centre Dynamics Ltd (DCD), 32-38 Saffron Hill, London, EC1N 8FH Email. [email protected]DCD is a subsidiary of InfraXmedia
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Company takes over former barracks site from logistics firm P3
French data center firm Data4 is to launch a new campus in Hanau
Last year GIC-backed European logistics real estate firm P3 Logistic Parks announced plans for a large data center campus on the site of a former army barracks in Hanu
Data4 has now acquired the approximately 20-hectare site from P3 and is planning to build its own data center campus there
Data4 CEO Olivier Micheli said: “The development of a sustainable and innovative data center campus in Hanau will benefit both the local and regional community
We at Data4 see great market opportunities in Germany
one of the leading nations in Europe in terms of digital infrastructure
and have high ambitions for the Hanau campus
which will eventually become one of the largest data center campuses in Germany and in Europe.”
July 2022 saw P3 take over the former Großauheim barracks in Hanau
from the Bundesanstalt für Immobilienaufgaben (Institute for Federal Real Estate) and announce plans to develop the P3 Datacenter Hanau data center campus on the 250,000 sqm (2.7 million sq ft) site
At least eight data center modules on a building area of around 200,000 sqm (2.1 million sq ft) were to be built over a period of ten years; the site will have an electrical supply of 180MW
Data4 hasn’t said whether it will change the site plans
but said it will invest €1 billion ($1.09bn) in the development
P3 has found an established data center operator who will also take over and continue the financing
and development and will be responsible for its data centers itself," said Semir Selcukoglu
“This is another important building block for securing the future of our city," added Hanau's Lord Mayor Claus Kaminsky
"and marks the beginning of the finale in the conversion of the former US military site
which can rightly be described as Hanau's success story
Hanau with the planned campus will then be one of the most powerful locations in Germany.”
Approximately 500,000 cubic meters of old buildings at the barracks – vacant since 2008 – will be decontaminated and demolished
with the building stock materials recycled and reused for groundworks
P3 will continue to support the ongoing demolition and development work
Demolition work and construction preparations on the site are already underway
and the commissioning of the first module is expected in 2024
Full development is expected to be completed by 2032
A ten-hectare photovoltaic system measuring is being built in the immediate vicinity and will contribute towards the campus’ operations
Stadtwerke Hanau GmbH and its subsidiary Hanau Netz GmbH are building a combined heat and power plant and a substation on the site
Discussions are underway to use waste heat from the site to heat parts of Hanau
After World War II, the city of Hanau was one of the largest American military bases in Europe. Originally built as a depot and taken over by the US at the end of the war, the Grossauheim barracks (also known as Großauheim Kaserne) span approximately 38.5 hectares. Since the end of 2008, properties in Hanau used by the American armed forces with a total area of approx. 340 hectares have been vacated and made available for development
Google is developing a data center in Hanau as part of an expansion to its Frankfurt cloud region
Data Centre Dynamics Ltd (DCD), 32-38 Saffron Hill, London, EC1N 8FH Email. [email protected]DCD is a subsidiary of InfraXmedia
France’s Data4 on Tuesday began building one of two planned data centres in Greece
The total investment for the first two centres is expected to reach 300 million euros ($318 million) and create some 500 jobs
Data4 already operates 35 data centres in France
“We are now a country friendly to foreign investment,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said at the data centre’s launch
“We still have many steps to take to cover the investment gap separating us from the remaining European countries,” he added
Greece is well-placed to offer “cheap clean energy” through solar and wind power to satisfy the heavy energy needs of data centres
According to the inter-governmental International Energy Agency (IEA)
the number of internet users worldwide has more than doubled since 2010
and global internet traffic has expanded 25-fold
The agency says that estimated global data centre electricity consumption in 2022 was less than 2.0 percent of global final electricity demand
But there is concern in some EU countries about energy usage
data centre electricity use has more than tripled since 2015
accounting for 18 percent of total electricity consumption in 2022
It estimates that data centres and other non-industrial large energy users could account for 28 percent of national demand by 2031
data centre energy use is projected to rise six times by 2030 to account for almost 15 percent of the country’s electricity use