Are you looking for off-market Data Center sites with secured power? Our unique strength lies in providing exactly that. From day one, we’ve dedicated ourselves to understanding and meeting your needs. Our highly skilled regional team has established a longstanding network with property owners across the DACH region (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland).
We speak the language of grid providers, municipalities, carrier operators, and local sellers. Acting as your operational and local arm with boots on the ground, we bring a deep regional background to the table to ensure your investment needs are fully met.

Identified off-market properties with secured power since 2021:

• Frankfurt // Schwalbach am Taunus: 25 MVA
• Frankfurt // Raunheim: 100 MVA
• Frankfurt // Bischofsheim: 40 MVA
• Frankfurt // Sossenheim: 20 MVA
• Frankfurt // Kelsterbach: 90 MVA
• Berlin // Spandau: 40 MVA
• Munich // Unterschleissheim: 30 MVA
• Heidelberg // Innovation Park: 5 MVA
• Graz // City: 5 MVA
• Duesseldorf // City: 30 MVA
• Zurich // City: 40 MVA

Once the right property has been identified, we’re right there by your side, providing our expertise throughout the due diligence process – covering technical, environmental, commercial, legal, and ESG aspects. During the acquisition phase, we help you minimize investment risks and guide you in making informed decisions during diligence- and acquisition period.

Services in detail:

• Technical Due Diligence
• Environmental Due Diligence
• Commercial Due Diligence
• Legal Due Diligence
• ESG Due Diligence
• Market Research: Market players and competitive landscape analysis
• CAPEX estimation
• Budgetary and business plan review as well as financial modeling
• Negotiation of the property purchase agreement
• Execution and acquisition of the site

To ensure your Data Center is durable, energy-efficient, and flexible, we start by creating strategic specifications tailored to your specific needs, whether you’re a hyperscaler, enterprise, or public sector customer. Our forward-looking planning approach helps minimize future costs even before construction begins and allows us to anticipate any potential changes. By leveraging innovative tools like BIM, we keep planning costs under control.

Our process typically begins with a collaborative kick-off workshop with the investors to jointly define the project’s fundamental characteristics and requirements – the scope of work.

Once the framework and implementation measures are clear, we compile all this information into a comprehensive concept—a detailed specification sheet for the Data Center. This allows us to accurately assess space requirements and establish a budget for the project.

We collaborate with top architects and engineering firms in the Data Center industry to bring your project to life. We assist you in comparing and selecting the right partners, preparing invitations to tender for general contractors, reconciling supplier lists, and supporting you through the contract awarding process.

Data Center engineering services:

• Concept Data Center MEP Design
• Optimization of PUE and WUE
• Maximizing IT Yield
• Development of D&B Employer’s Requirements
• Development of Technical Equipment Specifications
• Ensuring Compliance with End Customer BoD
• Grid Scale Storage Design
• Incorporation of Renewable Technologies
• Development of Metering Strategies
• Control & Monitoring System Performance Specifications
• BIM Consultancy
• CFD Analyses
• Root Cause Analysis
• Electrical Protection Studies
• Fault Level Assessments
• MV Control Systems
• Datacentre Management Systems
• Development of Operator Design Standards
• Acting as client Design Authority

Leasing

If you’re looking for strategic leasing services, our team is here to
support your Data Center investments with decades of expertise and trusted partnerships. We offer industry-leading capabilities to ensure your leasing and advisory needs are fully met. We provide end-to-end services, powered by market intelligence, to optimize your Data Center leasing strategy. Our global advisors specialize in streamlining solutions for your colocation needs, navigating site selection, negotiating leases, and partnering with you throughout the entire transaction process – no matter the size, scope, or location of your project.

Our leasing services include:

• Colocation leasing
• Hyperscale leasing
• Edge leasing
• Artificial Intelligence Leasing
• Contract and lease negotiation
• Revenue generating sales program curated to achieve client
  objectives
• Transaction management: RFP to signed contract
• Portfolio and asset level reporting
• Historic and live pulse market data
• Seamless coordination across project stakeholders: engineering to finance
• Comprehensive marketing capabilities

Financing

We support you in structuring your Data Center investments and  arranging financing, while also providing expert advice on financing strategies. Delivering privately financed Data Centers is a complex process that demands specialized guidance. You need to be confident that your capital is invested in Data Centers that promise clear returns and predictable cash flows. Choosing the right type of capital and financing model is crucial to ensuring your projects or corporate initiatives are affordable, valuable, and leave a stable, lasting legacy. We help you understand the risks and opportunities involved in funding, financing, and investing in Data Centers. From inception to financial close, we provide comprehensive advice to unlock the full potential of your Data Center investments. Our deep expertise in Data Centers, combined with advisory insights and local knowledge, ensures you make the right decisions, no matter where you’re based.

Developing Data Centers with the highest standards while minimizing risks for your investments is our mission. The quality of construction directly affects the longevity, reliability, and availability of Data Centers. To ensure your Data Center meets the required quality and achieves the highest possible availability, we conduct continuous quality controls and provide on-site support throughout the entire construction phase. With Level 1–5 acceptance tests, we maintain a high standard of quality during both the construction and integration phases. Understanding that expectations for a Data Center can be complex and vary depending on the industry, application, and organization, we tailor the implementation of your Data Center to meet your specific requirements and protect your IT infrastructure. During the construction phase, we manage the following workstreams on your behalf:

• Perception of on-site appointments
• Quality inspection of the construction trades
• Schedule control
• Management of defects list
• Change management process
• Factory acceptance tests
• Acceptance tests level 1 – 5

To ensure trouble-free Data Center operations, all technical elements and supply infrastructures must work perfectly coordinated and reliable under real operating conditions. We employ extensive testing procedures to ensure that the air conditioning, power supply, security systems, and building management systems function flawlessly before operations begin.

We support you in operating your Data Center with customized operating, security, and maintenance concepts. Clearly defined workflows, employee training, operating manuals, and the selection of reliable maintenance companies are all part of our approach to ensuring maximum availability and security.

A service contract tailored to your specific needs is crucial for longterm, trouble-free Data Center operations. Whether it’s a service level agreement (SLA) with site-specific services, rapid emergency response, or comprehensive protection with defined spare parts packages, you benefit from maximum cost transparency with services and prices customized to your requirements.

From short-term troubleshooting and repair to emergency management, preventive measures, or scheduled maintenance intervals, we provide the right solutions for your needs.

Additional services:

• Definition of operating, maintenance & emergency processes
• Maintenance contract support
• Asset management
• Creation of operating manual
• Training of employees

Throughout the DACH region, we specialize in executing Data Center investment sales and acquisitions, structuring sale and leasebacks, preparing detailed commercial due diligence reports, and coordinating large-scale M&A advisory projects for Data Centers.

We at Data Center Partners, are a leading Data Center capital markets advisor in the DACH region, with an unmatched track record.

Our expertise lies in helping you secure the highest possible sale proceeds by leveraging our knowledge of the most competitive capital sources and our extensive experience in running successful sales campaigns. Additionally, we excel in identifying prime opportunities for deploying capital, drawing heavily on our occupier team’s insights to guide you in what can be a very opaque market.

At Data Center Partners, we’ve developed a ‘best in class’ set of Data Center transaction documents, meticulously designed to support every phase of the transaction process. These documents, which include tailored Request For Proposals (RFPs), Scoring Matrices, and Heads of Terms, are continuously refined to capture top-tier market information, streamline transaction timelines, and maximizing commercial leverage.

We also offer a bespoke Data Center Colocation Risk Index tool that analyzes the full package of commercial terms secured in each transaction. This tool enables us to benchmark contract terms extensively and clearly demonstrate the value we add through our process and market expertise, particularly in minimizing commercial risks.

Our unique combination of transaction experience, deep market knowledge and strong relationships with Data Center operators give us unique insights into market dynamics across the EMEA region, ensuring we secure the best commercial terms for our clients.

We assist our investors in realizing exits from powered  and, Data Centers under construction, or fully commissioned facilities. Our track record includes numerous successful Data Center exits where we had a substantial equity stake.

Our Data Center valuation team possesses unmatched expertise in identifying the key value drivers across all types of Data Center assets. We provide specialized advice on a range of assets, from long-let powered shell facilities to complex multi-let co-location developments. Our deep understanding of valuation drivers and investment characteristics across different Data Center formats ensures precise and insightful evaluations.

Using sophisticated valuation reporting and financial modeling tools, we offer clients detailed insights into valuation assumptions and benchmark rationalization. Our team can deliver in-depth, cash flowdriven analyses on all Data Center transactions and provide data based conclusions and analysis drawing on our expansive and proprietary data sets.

We consider a wide array of factors when advising on Data Center investments, drawing on our detailed knowledge of supply, demand, development pipelines, and market dynamics. This enables us to provide highly sophisticated advice on financing, M&A, transaction support, financial reporting, and site acquisition.

We also provide insights into global Data Center demand and supply, infrastructure investor strategies, and overall investment activity levels. Our expertise includes the growing influence of advanced computing equipment, artificial intelligence, and other technologies on Data Center and digital infrastructure valuations.

Trusted by leading infrastructure investors, investment banks, private equity firms, and Data Center operators, we focus on assets serving hyperscale, AI, and high-density deployments, as well as complex operational and development Data Center campus valuations.

Our extensive experience, combined with our advanced data technology and analytics, empowers our investors to accurately assess the value of current and potential investment opportunities, backed by our deep expertise and cutting-edge technology.