Deutsche Telekom has broken ground on Germany’s largest data center — a massive facility that will be built on a surface area the size of approximately 30 soccer fields (i.e., 150,000m2) in Biere, Saxony-Anhalt.
The new facility, which will be the 90th data center operated by Deutsche Telekom’s T-Systems subsidiary, will operate as a twin of another data center already running in Magdeburg. The new construction in Biere will form a “TwinCore” — in the event of any disruption, the twin facility can immediately take over.
Deutsche Telekom said it is seeing high interest in colocation and cloud services. Some 600 corporate customers use these new IT services offered byT-Systems, including internationally active groups such as Shell and Daimler. Data protection and fail-safety are key services. T-Systems is using 22 data centers specifically for cloud services.
