Hyperscale is often seen as the benchmark, but successful colocation models don’t copy, they adapt.
High-density deployments, liquid cooling, modular power architectures, and standardised operating models offer valuable lessons. However, multi-tenant environments come with additional complexities: diverse customer requirements, workloads, SLAs, and compliance obligations must all be supported simultaneously.
Particularly in the age of AI, high-density workloads, and growing efficiency demands, the key lies in selectively adapting and further evolving hyperscale principles for the colocation environment.
In his guest article for Datacenter Insider, Georg Raiser, Managing Director DACH at AtlasEdge, explores what modern colocation data centres can learn from the hyperscale world, and where they need to develop their own solutions.
Read the full article in German here.
About AtlasEdge
AtlasEdge designs, builds and operates highly secure, scalable data centres across Europe. Formed as a joint venture between Liberty Global and DigitalBridge, we’re focusing on the next wave of markets including Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Leverkusen, Lisbon, Manchester, Stuttgart and Vienna. Our proven modular-based construction enables rapid deployments under 10MW, while we continue to develop larger campuses, with a target of more than 500MW in our powered landbank.
Since 2021, AtlasEdge customers have deployed AI, cloud and mission-critical workloads in our 2N facilities, using liquid-to-chip or air-cooled designs. All new builds run on 100% renewable energy. Our tax, legal and site-selection teams also support customers entering new European regions, helping them navigate regulatory, commercial and technical requirements with confidence.