At a glance
- Berlin 1, the first building, is due to go live by the end of 2028.
- H&MV Engineering, the contractor, said in a LinkedIn post this week it is delivering a 110 kV GIS substation for the campus.
- For allocators underwriting Colt's development book, the substation is the gating item for Berlin 1's end-2028 go-live.
Colt Data Centre Services has started construction on a two-building, 54MW data center campus about 10km east of Berlin, Data Center Dynamics reported. Berlin 1, the first building, is due to go live by the end of 2028.
H&MV Engineering, the contractor, said in a LinkedIn post this week it is delivering a 110 kV GIS substation for the campus. The substation is the grid connection and must be in place before either building can be energized. No anchor tenant was named.
For allocators underwriting Colt's development book, the substation is the gating item for Berlin 1's end-2028 go-live. Colt says it has nearly 800MW of capacity under development, alongside 15 operational data centers and about a dozen sites in progress across the UK, Europe and APAC.
The 54MW is the combined IT capacity of Berlin 1 and Berlin 2; the split between the two buildings was not disclosed. Colt is returning to Berlin after selling its legacy Berlin and Hamburg sites to AtlasEdge in 2021 as part of a larger European portfolio. Its three current German data centers are all in Frankfurt, with two more in development there.
Reported by the Data centers & fiber desk from Data Center Dynamics. Published . Corrections