nLighten: Zurich

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Josefstrasse 225

Operational

Fully operational facility

Zurich

Metro
Switzerland

Country
Western Europe

Region
Europe

Region
EMEA

Region

nLighten: Zurich

Short Code: ZUR-JOS

Ownership: nLighten does not own the building.

Total Power

SqFt

Gross Colocation Size

In April 2024, nLighten acquired the site from Exa Infrastructure.

In May 2018, GTT acquired the site in a $2.3 billion acquisition of Interoute. (TR PR Source)

Power & Cooling

Total power supply to site: 1000 kVA
Total generator power: 900 kVA
Total UPS power: 1200 kVA
Cooling type: Chilled water
Total cooling: 560 kW

Datacenter Details

Gross size of data centre: 1196 m²
Net size of customer space: 425 m²
Building type: Concrete
Building tenure: Leasehold
Number of data suites: 3
Suit expansion available: Yes
Uniform distributed loads: 1000 kg/m²
Max raise floor height: 500mm

Compliance:

ISO 27001
PCI DSS

Map and Nearby Locations:

Josefstrasse 225

nLighten Sites

Nearby Facilities

Sites within 15 miles of nLighten: Zurich

Distance	Site	About
0.00 miles	Equinix Zurich ZH2 ZH4
0.06 miles	Equinix Zürich ZH1
0.99 miles	Swisscom Zürich
1.26 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset	The Google Cloud Region in Zurich was announced in May 2018 and opened in March 2019.
2.25 miles	AtlasEdge: Zurich
3.00 miles	Equinix Zurich ZH5
3.55 miles	Digital Realty: ZUR4	Digital Realty plans to expand its campus near the Swiss capital with a fourth building.
3.57 miles	Digital Realty: Zurich
3.59 miles	Digital Realty: ZUR2
3.63 miles	Green Datacenter Glattbrugg
3.66 miles	Digital Realty: ZUR3
4.01 miles	Green Datacenter Zurich City (Schlieren)
4.40 miles	NTT Zurich 1	The site was opened in June 2011, is located in Rümlang near Zurich.
6.99 miles	Green Datacenter Dielsdorf Campus	Green Datacenter's second data center campus is located at Zurich Metro, Dielsdorf, Switzerland. The 500 million Swiss franc ($561.5 million) project is being built in Dielsdorf, approximately 15 km (9.3 miles) north of Zurich.
7.03 miles	Green Datacenter: Dielsdorf Bldg N	Green Datacenter's second data center campus is located at Zurich Metro, Dielsdorf, Switzerland.
7.08 miles	Green Datacenter: Dielsdorf Bldg O	Green Datacenter's second data center campus is located at Zurich Metro, Dielsdorf, Switzerland.
7.29 miles	Vantage: Zurich ZRH3	Vantage plans to build its ZRH3 campus in Zurich on approximately 13 acres of land. The campus may include one or two buildings.
11.02 miles	STACK: ZUR03	STACK Infrastructure plans to build another data center in Zurich.
12.21 miles	Vantage Zurich ZRH1
12.52 miles	NorthC: Winterthur (Zurich)
12.65 miles	Vantage: Zurich II	Vantage's second data center in Switzerland is located north of Zurich's city center in Glattfelden. Set on 1 acre, the two-story facility offers a total of 226,000 square feet (21,000 sq m) of space.
14.76 miles	STACK ZUR01
15.00 miles	Green Datacenter: Zurich West 4	Green Datacenter is expanding its Metro-Campus Zurich West with the construction of its fourth data center.
15.02 miles	Green Datacenter Lupig Zurich West 1 + 2
15.06 miles	Green Datacenter: Zurich West 3	In 2020, Green Datacenter expanded its Zurich West campus with a new data center building providing 5,500 m² of data center space.

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Operating Company

nLighten is a digital infrastructure platform owned by I Squared Capital, a leading global infrastructure investor. The company is developing innovative edge data centers distributed across European key economic hubs to provide best-in-class network access to regional, national, and global enterprises, private users, and the mobile workforce. Through the strategic distribution of its edge data centers, nLighten is working towards establishing a pan-European presence in all major cities and providing access to low latency and proximity to end users across Europe.
The edge data centers developed by nLighten are designed to meet the increasing demand for faster and more reliable data processing and storage, while also being mindful of environmental impact. nLighten was founded in 2021 by a core team with many years of experience and wide-ranging expertise in the data center sector. The team's main motivation was to create the next step for the data center industry and align edge data centers with the green transition.

nLighten's goal is to build and operate the leading pan-European edge data center platform. The company's focus on strategic locations, low latency, and environmental consciousness positions it as an innovative player in the European digital infrastructure landscape.

Expansion and Acquisitions

nLighten has grown rapidly through both organic growth and strategic acquisitions:

In June 2023, the company acquired Euclyde Data Centers, a French regional platform with six carrier-neutral data centers.
In September 2023, nLighten completed the acquisition of Proximity Data Centers, a leading UK edge platform with ten carrier-neutral data centers.
The company also acquired 10 carrier data center sites from its sister company Exa Infrastructure.

Facilities

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67MW

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