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In 2023 and 2024, Bennbrooke is involved in a large number of hyperscaler data centers as a local development partner for our customers.

In the greater Frankfurt area alone, Bennbrooke is supporting its customers in the development, planning and implementation of a total of three data centers with a total capacity of around 500 MVA connected load in the final expansion.

In addition, Bennbrooke is assisting a longstanding client with its first large data center campus in the Berlin region.

Bennbrooke is therefore currently providing support in four hyperscaler data centers throughout Germany with a total capacity of around 700 MVA, all of which are being implemented in parallel.

The biggest challenges that Bennbrooke had to overcome were supporting the planning and project-related implementation of the individual power connections for these projects.

Several new Bennbrooke projects in the greater Frankfurt area, in the Berlin region and at other locations in Germany and Switzerland are on the starting line.

Bennbrooke has specialized in acting as a local development partner and "enabler" from day 1 of the projects for our customers in terms of joint project success.

About Bennbrooke:
Bennbrooke is a project developer specializing in data centers. Since our foundation in 2016, we have initiated, accompanied and successfully completed almost 20 data center project developments with the handover of the project development to our customers. In total, Bennbrooke has been involved in the
development of data centers with a total capacity of almost 1 gigawatt of connected load throughout Germany, with the Frankfurt am Main region continuing to be the regional focus.

You can find more information about Bennbrooke at www.bennbrooke.com

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Bennbrooke GmbH – Press Release – April 2024

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Already last year, Coca-Cola launched a structured sales process for the approx. 70,000 square meters site in Liederbach (Frankfurt am Main region). Bennbrooke supported STACK Infrastructure in the bidding process and in negotiations with the seller, the city and all other parties involved. Now the acquisition has been successfully completed and the next phase of project development has begun. It is planned to develop a new state-of-the-art and energy-efficient data center on the former bottling and logistics site. The total IT capacity is expected to be 80 Megawatts and will be implemented in phases. Bennbrooke continues to support the STACK project team in all aspects of project development and implementation.

About Bennbrooke:
Bennbrooke is a project developer specializing in data centers. Since its inception in 2016, Bennbrooke has initiated and successfully completed a number of data center project developments with handover of project development to Bennbrooke clients. Overall, Bennbrooke has been and continues to be involved in the development of data centers with a total capacity of several hundred MW throughout Germany, with the Frankfurt am Main region remaining the regional focus.

Bennbrooke is currently involved in several other project developments in, among others, Frankfurt am Main, the RhineMain region and throughout Germany, as well as in other European countries, and develops customized data center project concepts for its clients.

For more information about Bennbrooke, please visit www.bennbrooke.com

Bennbrooke GmbH
Rheinpromenade 9
40789 Monheim am Rhein
www.bennbrooke.com

Bennbrooke GmbH – Press Release – October 2022

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After working together on a previous data centre project in the Sossenheim business district in Frankfurt am Main in 2016, Bennbrooke and a long-standing Bennbrooke client continue their successful collaboration and successfully complete another transaction. The Bennbrooke team supported the well-known data centre operator in the acquisition of the project planning on an approx. 12,500 m2 site in the immediate vicinity of the client's existing building. With the acquisition of the additional space, the client thus has the opportunity to further expand its presence in the data centre hotspot Frankfurt-Sossenheim. Bennbrooke assisted the client in the acquisition and negotiations with the vendors, and sold the Bennbrooke project development to the client in a forward deal. Along with this project, Bennbrooke has developed a number of data centre projects in the Sossenheim business park over the past few years. The total capacity of all Bennbrooke projects now amounts to well over 100 MW of IT capacity. The data centre team of the world's largest law firm Dentons Europe LLP supported the transaction, as did the data centre competence team of BNP Paribas Real Estate GmbH. Bennbrooke, which develops customised data centre project concepts for its clients, is currently developing further projects with a focus on Frankfurt am Main and the Rhine-Main region, Hamburg, Munich and Berlin. Bennbrooke is also working on opening up further European markets.

More information about Bennbrooke is available at www.bennbrooke.com

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Bennbrooke GmbH – Press Release – June 2021

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After the cooperation in the previous data center projects in Leipzig and Berlin, Bennbrooke and Penta continue the successful cooperation and successfully close a transaction in Hamburg. The Bennbrooke team assisted Penta in the acquisition of a property in Hamburg adjacent to the Hamburg airport. This is a mixed-use commercial property that already has a data center on the site, as well as various other commercial tenants. The transaction went through in a focused manner and completed in less than six months. Penta's long-term goal is to develop the site into a data center campus. Bennbrooke assisted Penta in the acquisition and coordination with the sellers, while also reviewing the site's course for additional developments. The data center team of the world’s largest law firm of Dentons Europe LLP advised on the transaction. Bennbrooke, which develops customized data center project concepts for its clients, is currently involved in project developments in Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, Munich, and Berlin. Furthermore, Bennbrooke is expanding more into pan-european markets.

More information about Bennbrooke is available at www.bennbrooke.com

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Bennbrooke GmbH – Press Release – May 2021

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Bennbrooke has sold a new data center project development in the Frankfurt am Main-Sossenheim industrial park to Bennbrooke's regular customer CyrusOne. The planned data center is an expansion of CyrusOne's existing capacities at the Frankfurt-Sossenheim business district. Bennbrooke has already played a leading role in project development and implementation support in CyrusOne's previous projects in Sossenheim. The site for the expansion area is approx. 10,000 m2 and is located close to the CyrusOne data centers already in operation or under construction. The new data centre will have a capacity of 17 MW. The globally active law firm Dentons Europe LLP and the Data Center Solutions-Team of BNP Paribas RE supported Bennbrooke during the transaction. Bennbrooke is currently involved in several other project developments in Frankfurt am Main, the Rhine-Main region and Bavaria, Berlin and throughout Germany, among others, and develops tailor-made data center project concepts for its clients.

More information about Bennbrooke is available at www.bennbrooke.com

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Bennbrooke GmbH – Press Release – July 2020

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In the Frankfurt am Main - Sossenheim industrial park, Bennbrooke was able to support a long-standing repeat client, one of the largest NYSE listed REITS, in the acquisition of an expansion area of 6,000 sqm for its existing data center. The global law firm of Dentons Europe LLP supported Bennbrooke during the implementation. Bennbrooke is currently involved in various other project developments e. g. in Frankfurt am Main, the Rhine-Main region and in Bavaria, Berlin and Rhineland-Palatinate and develops tailor-made data center project concepts for its clients.

More information about Bennbrooke is available at www.bennbrooke.com

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Bennbrooke GmbH – Press Release – April 2020

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Following several successfully completed project developments and transactions in Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Leipzig, Bennbrooke developed a further location in Germany and completed the sale of the latest project development for a data centre in the Hanseatic City of Hamburg in the first quarter of 2019. Equinix purchased the property (measuring ca. 12,000 sqm) for EUR 9 million and will invest another EUR 22 million to redevelop the space in phase one from 375 cabinets with the ability to expand to 1,875 cabinets at full build. The property is an industrial property that was used for many years as a production site for the aviation industry. Bennbrooke recognized the potential and suitability of the site for conversion as a data center at an early stage and compiled and verified all further prerequisites for successful conversion and worked them out as part of a comprehensive project development. Thanks to the many years of know-how and expertise of the Bennbrooke specialists, it was possible to design a project that meets the requirements of the growing market at the Hamburg location and at the same time has potential for further growth at the location. The global law firm of Dentons Europe LLP acted as legal advisor to Bennbrooke. Bennbrooke is currently involved in further project developments in Frankfurt am Main, in the Rhine-Main region and throughout Germany and develops tailor-made data center project concepts for its customers.

More information about Bennbrooke is available at www.bennbrooke.com

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Bennbrooke GmbH – Press Release – March 2019

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Bennbrooke, a specialist for the development and building of data centers, has together with Max Baum Immobilien Firmengruppe (both from Frankfurt am Main) again sold a data center project development in Frankfurt am Main (industrial area of Sossenheim) in the framework of a forward-deal. The buyer is Zenium Germany GmbH. The new Zenium data center will be called “Frankfurt Three”, and it is the third project by Zenium in Sossenheim. It has been set up for an IT-capacity of 22MW. After the sale of the previous Bennbrooke project development to Digital Realty Trust and Colt Datacenter Services, this is now the third Bennbrooke transaction in the industrial sector of Sossenheim during the past 2 years. Bennbrooke is currently working on numerous new Data Center projects in Frankfurt and all of Germany, which are then sold as turnkey, “powered shell” units to Bennbrooke clients.

You can receive more information about Bennbrooke at www.bennbrooke.com

Max Baum Immobilien is a third generation project developer in Frankfurt and surroundings areas, in particular in commercial and industrial construction.

You can receive more information about Max Baum Immobilien at www.maxbaumimmobilien.de

Bennbrooke GmbH – Press Release – July 2018

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After cooperating on a data center project for HL Komm in Leipzig, Penta and Bennbrooke have successfully completed another project together. Both parties participated as part of a joint bidder group in the framework of an investor competition sponsored by Deutsche Bahn for the sale of its DB Systel Datacenter in Berlin-Mahlsdorf. The concept developed by Penta and Bennbrooke for the further operation of the data center, which applies not only to the contractually fixed term but contains an option for a continuing period thereafter and which also foresees an opening for new users, convinced DB to award the project to the Penta / Bennbrooke joint venture. Frank Langer, Managing Director or Bennbrooke GmbH, notes “With our partner Penta, we were once again able to convince an ambitious client of our joint capabilities. Penta is a reliable and long-term strategic partner for Bennbrooke. We therefore look forward to further joint projects." Bennbrooke is currently developing new data center projects in various areas throughout Germany. Alongside Bennbrooke’s core market in Frankfurt am Main, new sites outside of the Frankfurt region have taken on particular importance in 2017.

For more information about Bennbrooke, please visit our website at www.bennbrooke.com

Joint Press Release of Penta and Bennbrooke

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Bennbrooke, the Frankfurt-based specialist for datacenter development structured a consortium and brought it together with the principal. The consortium was successful in its competitive bid for a Datacenter-as-a-Service project in Leipzig, Germany at the beginning of 2017. The consortium consists of the Dutch infrastructure fund Penta and the Dutch datacenter specialist ICTRoom. ICTRoom will build the modular datacenter and operate it for a single tenant. With the building permits being issued now, official groundbreaking ceremony will be held at July 25^th, 20 17 and the on-site construction works will start soon. Phase 1 of the DC will be handed over to the principal by end of this year. The transaction marks the entry of Penta and ICTRoom into the German market. When all phases will be finished in 2019, the datacenter will measure 1,400 square meters white space and have a capacity of appr. 3,5 MW. It will have a PUE of 1.2 and will be powered with 100% renewable energy. With its datacenter expertise, Bennbrooke continues to support and advise the consortium during the planning and implementation phases.

For more information about Bennbrooke, please visit our website at www.bennbrooke.com

Date: 16 November 2016
Time: 4pm – 8pm

Venue: Dentons Palo Alto, 1530 Page Mill Rd #200, Palo Alto, United States | Map

Considering the location for your next data center?

Frankfurt has become the go-to destination for the data center industry.  As Europe’s largest economy and a gateway to the EU, Germany is among the most attractive markets for FDI. Frankfurt is also a hub for the digital economy – home to the world’s largest internet exchange, high-capacity power infrastructure, and high standards of data protection.

Join us for a 2 hour fireside chat followed by a networking session over wine and cheese.  Our panel will discuss the investment climate and market opportunities in Frankfurt, as well as the development, design, and  legal issues to consider when setting up a data center. 

Our panel will include:

Linhard Stepf,
President of FrankfurtRheinMain

Frank Zachmann,
International Frankfurt Business Ambassador, Chairman of Digital Hub FrankfurtRheinMain

Frank Langer,
Managing Director, Bennbrooke

Christoph Papenheim,
Corporate Partner, Dentons Frankfurt

The event will be hosted by Dentons in cooperation with FrankfurtRheinMain, the inward investment agency of the Frankfurt region, and Bennbrooke, a Frankfurt-based data center development company.

For more information contact us.

For more information on Dentons, go to http://www.dentons.com/en

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Bennbrooke, the Frankfurt am Main, Germany - based specialist for datacenter developments announced the sale of its latest data center project development to Colt Data Centre Services (DCS). This future data centre will be located in Frankfurt am Main and will have 18 MW power capacity. Colt DCS is a global provider of carrier neutral data centre facilities. Frankfurt is a key market for Colt DCS where it is seeing high demand for large colocation opportunities. The deal represents Bennbrooke’s second data center transaction in 2016, the first being the sale of a 27 MW-data center project development in Frankfurt am Main, which was sold to a listed US based REIT(real estate investment trust). Bennbrooke is currently working on further data center projects in Frankfurt am Main and the Rhine-Main region. The new projects will be delivered as powered shell buildings to the customer.

For more information on Colt Data Centre Services, go to http://www.coltdatacentres.net/

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