Data center

HARDWARE OF OUR DATA MANUFACTORY

Since the end of 2017, our servers have been located in the data center of the Telehouse Group at Kleyerstraße 75 in Frankfurt am Main (Gallusviertel). We have always attached great importance to the fact that our customers' data are in our direct care.

That's why we work exclusively on hardware owned by us and manage our systems ourselves. As a matter of principle, we do not use cloud services.

After the move within the data center in June 2025, we have free space available again, some of which is already reserved for future expansions.

• Power distribution and two firewalls are located at the top
• Four servers for workstations, applications, and backup share the middle section with an edge router
• The drawer at the bottom houses materials and tools

Even the back now looks tidier. The cable clutter still looks chaotic, but it follows a precise plan...

Inside of our new addition (12/2020): you can see the copper heatpipes, with which the heat of the processors - up to 360 watts - is released to the airflow. Are you thinking of a toy steam engine now, too?

IT and sustainability

are not necessarily contradictory: preserving value and avoiding waste go hand in hand for us. This works because we invested from the outset in high-quality, durable, high-performance and expandable components that remain technically flawless and economically viable even after a long service life. In July 2025, we replaced a device in the data center for the first time since 2014 in order to save 75% of energy consumption in the future while maintaining comparable functionality.

In addition, Moore's law has lost its magic on closer inspection: It is true that the density of integrated circuits in commercially available chips continues to double every 18-24 months. But because conventional manufacturing techniques have long since approached physical limits, density and computing speed are no longer in constant proportion. Today, performance enhancement in hardware is mainly achieved by parallelization rather than by increasing speed. To oversimplify, it's like adding a second or third engine under the hood to increase the top speed of a car.

We are therefore following the research results on quantum computers with great interest ;-)

Energy consumption

The number and performance of the appliances increase energy consumption. We currently (08/2025) require between 1.03 kW (base load) and 1.45 kW (peak load) of electrical power, which corresponds to around 740 kWh of electricity (100% green) per month. In addition, there are costs for the redundant power supply as well as the removal of the resulting heat. All in all, this adds up to a considerable sum. We are all the more pleased that our data center operator (Telehouse) is pursuing innovative concepts for waste heat utilization together with Mainova AG.