Virtus Data Centres: Virtus Berlin 13

Virtus Berlin 13 continues Virtus Data Centres’ sustained expansion in Germany, strengthening its position as one of Europe’s most advanced providers of hyperscale, enterprise, and AI-ready digital infrastructure. Operated by Virtus Data Centres, a subsidiary of ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC), this facility follows the company’s strategic buildout of its Berlin ecosystem — spanning from the pioneering Marienpark Campus (Berlin 1–4) through to Berlin 12.

Berlin 13 embodies Virtus’s next-generation design philosophy: sustainable, high-efficiency, and performance-optimized for artificial intelligence (AI), cloud, and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. Positioned within the greater Berlin metropolitan region, the facility benefits from direct access to the German power grid, high-capacity fibre corridors, and proximity to major enterprise and technology zones.

⚙️ Facility Highlights

• Built to Tier III+ standards, ensuring concurrent maintainability and high fault tolerance across all systems.
• Planned IT load capacity between 14 MW and 20 MW, consistent with Virtus’s hyperscale blueprint across Europe.
• Optimized for AI and HPC applications, featuring support for direct-to-chip and immersive liquid-cooling technologies.
• Target PUE below 1.2, achieved through precision-engineered cooling systems, energy-efficient electrical architecture, and smart load balancing.
• Fully powered by 100 % renewable energy, integrating waste-heat recovery systems to contribute to Berlin’s district-heating network.
• Modular hall design enables scalable capacity for both hyperscale tenants and enterprise deployments.

🔐 Security & Compliance

• 24×7 on-site security with biometric access control, man-trap entries, and continuous CCTV coverage throughout perimeter and data-hall zones.
• Multiple perimeter and internal protection layers, including vehicle barriers, motion detection, and secure visitor management.
• Operated under ISO 27001 (Information Security), ISO 50001 (Energy Management), and ISO 14001 (Environmental Management) standards.
• Fully aligned with EU and German critical infrastructure compliance, ensuring regulatory adherence and operational transparency.
• Designed to achieve >99.999 % uptime SLAs, with N+1/N+N redundancy for power and cooling systems.

🌐 Connectivity & Carrier Access

• Carrier-neutral data centre, supporting multiple Tier-1 and Tier-2 carriers with diverse fibre routes and dual points of entry.
• Integrated into the Virtus European Data Centre Fabric, ensuring high-speed, low-latency connectivity to all other Virtus and STT GDC sites.
• Supports direct cloud on-ramps, private interconnects, and hybrid-cloud connectivity for hyperscale and enterprise clients.
• Designed for AI and HPC cluster interconnection, offering high-bandwidth, low-latency data links between Berlin 13 and other Berlin facilities.
• Enables seamless cross-campus connectivity, linking with the broader Berlin data-centre ecosystem for scalable, distributed deployments.

💼 Who It Serves

• Hyperscalers expanding compute and storage capacity in a high-density, sustainability-focused German environment.
• AI, ML, and HPC operators requiring extreme power density, advanced cooling, and low-latency interconnects.
• Enterprises and regulated industries seeking compliant, high-availability data hosting within the EU jurisdiction.
• Telecommunications and cloud carriers establishing edge and backbone presence across the Berlin digital corridor.
• Managed service providers and multi-cloud platforms leveraging Virtus’s networked infrastructure for regional and global scalability.