New edge datacentre platform for Germany and surrounding countries
London – 12 December 2023: Arcus Infrastructure Partners (“Arcus”) today announced the launch of Portus Data Centers and its acquisition of IPHH Internet Port Hamburg (“IPHH”), a leading regional datacentre operator and internet service provider.
Portus’s edge datacentre platform now comprises four high quality facilities in the key regional datacentre locations of Hamburg, Munich and Luxembourg. The acquisition of IPHH by Arcus European Infrastructure Fund 3 SCSp (“AEIF3”) follows its acquisition of a newly developed datacentre in Munich from SpaceNet AG, a local IT services provider, and the acquisition of Luxembourg based datacentre company, European Data Hub (“EDH”) earlier this year.
“I am very excited by the launch and growth potential of Portus Data Centers in Germany and surrounding countries,” said Adriaan Oosthoek, Chairman of Portus Data Centers “Our current edge platform, offering immediate capacity through high quality facilities in Luxembourg, Munich and Hamburg, provides us with an excellent launchpad. In all our locations we plan to add further capacity to meet growing customer demand. We are also seeking to expand our footprint with further locations in the coming months.”
“IPHH is an excellent investment opportunity for AEIF3 and a great fit for Portus against the backdrop of a growing regional German datacentre market,” said John Shea, Partner at Arcus. “With its market leading connectivity, strong management, highly skilled team, and growing customer base it fits perfectly within Portus’ buy-and-build regional datacentre aggregation strategy. We are greatly looking forward to working with the IPHH team to support its next phase of growth as part of the Portus Data Centers family.”
Sascha Pollok, CEO of IPHH, who recently celebrated 25 years with the company, commented: “The IPHH team has been very impressed with Portus’ collaborative highly professional approach and its long-term strategy and vision for the future. We are very excited to join Portus and look forward to working with its senior management and Arcus to grow our business in the coming years and continue to provide our existing and new customers with a market leading service.”
IPHH operates two datacentres in the east of Hamburg, currently offering 2.4MW of sellable IT power capacity. Its facilities are perfectly positioned on the North-South and East-West crossroads for connectivity. It has an attractive, growing and highly connected customer base, including telecom carriers, global technology and social media companies and content distribution networks. With its hyper connected customer base it is the best connected datacentre in the North of Germany. IPHH also has ongoing development projects that will significantly increase its size and sellable capacity.
Aligning with Arcus’ commitment to ensuring that its investments have a positive ESG impact, energy consumed by IPHH’s datacentres is certified as being 100% renewably sourced, and the facilities are very efficient, with a power usage effectiveness ratio of c. 1.3x. Going forward, Arcus will seek to even further strengthen IPHH’s ESG policies and practices.
Hamburg is the fourth biggest market for datacentres in Germany and is a connectivity gateway for the North of Germany. Demand for regional datacentre capacity is expected to continue to increase in the coming years, driven by IT outsourcing from enterprise customers, demand from local managed services providers and IT companies, as well as from global technology companies and content distribution networks.
Arcus was advised by Noerr (Legal), Arup (Technical), BDO (Financial and Tax) and Aon (Insurance).
About Portus Data Centers
Portus Data Centers is a growing network of secure, state-of-the-art datacentres in strategic regional locations in Germany and adjacent countries, underpinned by future-proof capacity and excellent on-site engineering support. These provide low latency regional colocation solutions to enterprise businesses and resilient edge infrastructure optimised for CDN, cloud and telecoms providers delivering high-speed services to local enterprises, government and other users.
The Portus group currently comprises of IPHH in Hamburg, EDH in Luxembourg, and Portus Data Centers Munich.
About Arcus
Arcus Infrastructure Partners LLP is an independent fund manager focused solely on long-term investments in European infrastructure. Arcus invests on behalf of institutional investors through discretionary funds and special co-investment vehicles and, through its subsidiaries, currently manages investments with an aggregate enterprise value in excess of EUR 21bn (as of 30 June 2023). Arcus targets mid-market, value-add infrastructure investments, with a particular focus on businesses in the digital, transport, logistics & industrials, and energy sectors. www.arcusip.com
Further information:
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Arcus Infrastructure Partners LLP
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Stefan Kratzer
Group Marketing Manager
Portus Data Centers
