Data center · Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany
Rechenzentrum Colt FRA74 (Colt FRA74 data center)
Rechenzentrum Colt FRA74 is a data center in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany, with a 3,855 m² building, operated by Colt. It lies 1.4 km from a 110 kV substation and is in an area of high water stress.
Power and water
The nearest substation is Westerbach, a 110 kV substation, 1.4 km away.
The nearest transmission substation (380 kV) is Umspannwerk Frankfurt Südwest, 4.3 km away.
Water stress here is high: withdrawals take 54.8% of the renewable water supply of its sub-basin (WRI Aqueduct 4.0, baseline, score 3.5 of 5).
Distances run between the points of the records. How the grid and plants nearby are found; water stress from WRI Aqueduct 4.0.
Facts
Every value links to its source, and to the source's own record where it has one. Licences and last-checked dates are per row.
| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Hesse | OpenStreetMap data centers · record · ODbL 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Location | Frankfurt am Main (point in boundary) | BKG Verwaltungsgebiete 1:250 000 (VG250) · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Wilhelm-Fay-Straße 7, 65936 Frankfurt am Main | OpenStreetMap data centers · record · ODbL 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Colt | OpenStreetMap data centers · record · ODbL 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Nearest substation | Westerbach (1.42 km away, at 110 kV) | Rare Context powered-land sites · ODbL 1.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Water stress | High (40–80%) (score 3.5 of 5, withdrawals 54.8% of renewable supply) | WRI Aqueduct 4.0 · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Building footprint | 3,855 m² (building) | OpenStreetMap data centers · record · ODbL 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Nearest transmission substation | Umspannwerk Frankfurt Südwest (4.3 km away, at 380 kV) | Rare Context powered-land sites · ODbL 1.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 50.1255, 8.5878 | OpenStreetMap data centers · record · ODbL 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
Research on this data center and its operator.Who owns it up to the parent company, its power supply, grid connection and planning status, and an introduction to the operator.
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Within 50 km of this data center: 196 substations, 88 power plants (52 operating, 2,483 MW), 8 CO2 emitters (2,904,453 tCO2e) and 2 AI supercomputers, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FRA32-NEA01 (Frankfurt am Main) | Power plant | 23.9 MW | Operating | 0.2 km |
| A-U1-084-GEN-02 | Power plant | 115 MW | Operating | 1.0 km |
| Westerbach | Substation | — | — | 1.4 km |
| Umspannwerk Frankfurt/West | Substation | — | — | 2.5 km |
| Umspannwerk Froschhäuser Straße | Substation | — | — | 3.0 km |
| FR8 Generator B (Frankfurt am Main) | Power plant | 14.4 MW | Operating | 3.0 km |
| Heizkraftwerk West | CO2 emitter | 519,577 tCO2e | — | 3.3 km |
| Heizkraftwerk - Geb. D 580 | CO2 emitter | 781,158 tCO2e | — | 4.4 km |
| Universitaet Frankfurt Goethe-NHR | AI supercomputer | 80 H100e | Operating | 4.8 km |
Operator and place
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Data on this page
- © BKG (2026) dl-de/by-2-0, Datenquellen: https://sg.geodatenzentrum.de/web_public/gdz/datenquellen/datenquellen_vg_nuts.pdf. BKG Verwaltungsgebiete 1:250 000 (VG250), DL-DE-BY-2.0.
- Epoch AI. Epoch AI supercomputers, CC BY 4.0.
- European Commission, Union Registry. EU Union Registry public data, CC BY 4.0.
- Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass). OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass), ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors.
- Rare Context. Rare Context powered-land sites, ODbL 1.0.
- Kuzma, S., M.F.P. Bierkens, S. Lakshman, T. Luo, L. Saccoccia, E. H. Sutanudjaja, and R. Van Beek. 2023. Aqueduct 4.0: Updated Decision-Relevant Global Water Risk Indicators. Technical Note. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute. doi.org/10.46830/writn.23.00061. WRI Aqueduct 4.0, CC BY 4.0.