Virtus Data Centres: Virtus Berlin 11

Virtus Berlin 11 is the latest planned addition to Virtus Data Centres’ expanding portfolio in Germany, strengthening the company’s position as one of Europe’s foremost providers of hyperscale and enterprise colocation infrastructure. Operated by Virtus Data Centres, a subsidiary of ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC), Berlin 11 continues the growth trajectory established by the Marienpark Campus (Berlin 1–4) and the subsequent Berlin 5–10 developments.

Envisioned as part of Virtus’s broader long-term European expansion plan, Berlin 11 is designed to support the next wave of AI, HPC, and cloud workloads with highly sustainable, power-dense, and scalable infrastructure. Its strategic location in the Berlin metropolitan area provides access to Germany’s major fibre corridors, power grids, and interconnection ecosystems — making it an optimal site for hyperscale and high-availability deployments.

⚙️ Facility Highlights

• Built to Tier III+ design, ensuring concurrent maintainability, fault tolerance, and continuous uptime for mission-critical workloads.
• Planned IT load capacity of approximately 14–20 MW, consistent with Virtus’s hyperscale standards across Europe.
• Designed for AI-ready infrastructure, with advanced cooling systems (including direct-to-chip and liquid cooling) for high-density racks.
• Target PUE < 1.2, achieved through precision-engineered mechanical systems, renewable energy integration, and smart energy monitoring.
• Fully powered by 100 % renewable electricity, with heat-recovery infrastructure to contribute to Berlin’s district-heating networks.
• Modular data-hall design allows flexible configuration for hyperscale, enterprise, and hybrid-cloud deployments.

🔐 Security & Compliance

• 24 / 7 / 365 onsite security, biometric access control, man-trap entry points, and monitored vehicle-trap perimeters.
• Continuous CCTV surveillance and integrated building-management systems for environmental and operational monitoring.
• Designed and operated in accordance with ISO 27001 (Information Security), ISO 50001 (Energy Management), and ISO 14001 (Environmental Management).
• Fully compliant with German and EU critical-infrastructure regulations, ensuring data sovereignty and regulatory assurance.
• Engineered to deliver > 99.999 % uptime, with redundant N+N or N+1 power and cooling systems and dual independent utility feeds.

🌐 Connectivity & Carrier Access

• Carrier-neutral facility supporting multiple fibre entry paths and diverse Tier-1 and Tier-2 network providers.
• Integrated into Virtus’s pan-European Data Centre Fabric, offering low-latency inter-data-centre connectivity across Berlin and other Virtus markets.
• Enables direct cloud interconnects, private peering, and hybrid-cloud architectures for hyperscale and enterprise clients.
• Designed to support AI and HPC interconnect environments, facilitating high-bandwidth, low-latency cluster performance.

Seamless cross-connectivity to other Virtus Berlin campuses enables large-scale multi-site deployments with consistent performance and unified operations.

💼 Who It Serves

• Hyperscale and cloud providers expanding European capacity in a sustainable, compliant, and scalable environment.
• AI and high-performance computing firms requiring dense power availability and advanced cooling for compute-intensive workloads.
• Enterprises and financial institutions demanding German-hosted, EU-compliant colocation infrastructure with high uptime and security.
• Telecommunication carriers and content providers building edge and backbone capacity in Berlin’s growing digital hub.
• Hybrid-cloud and managed-service providers leveraging Virtus’s interconnected ecosystem for regional and continental scalability.