Data center · Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany

Rechenzentrum Digital Realty FRA17 (Digital Realty FRA17 data center)

Rechenzentrum Digital Realty FRA17 is a data center in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany, with a 2,518 m² building, operated by Digital Realty Trust. It lies 1.1 km from a 110 kV substation and is in an area of high water stress.

Power and water

The nearest substation is 110 kV substation (OSM way/613862764), a 110 kV substation run by NRM Netzdienste Rhein-Main GmbH, 1.1 km away.

The nearest transmission substation (220 kV) is Umspannwerk Frankfurt Nord, 4 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
Operator	Digital Realty Trust	OpenStreetMap data centers · record · ODbL 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Nearest substation	110 kV substation (OSM way/613862764) (1.14 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	2,518 m² (building)	OpenStreetMap data centers · record · ODbL 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Nearest transmission substation	Umspannwerk Frankfurt Nord (4.01 km away, at 220 kV)	Rare Context powered-land sites · ODbL 1.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Coordinates	50.1251, 8.7540	OpenStreetMap data centers · record · ODbL 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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How its operator compares

Digital Realty Trust operates 28 of the 170 data centers in Germany in our data with a named owner; the most of any owner. Counts cover the data centers in our data that name an owner, holder or operator; an asset with several owners counts for each.

Operator in Germany	Rank	Data centers	Share
Digital Realty Trust	1st	28	16%
Equinix	2nd	15	8.8%
NorthC	3rd	7	4.1%
Vantage Data Centers	4th	6	3.5%
noris network AG	5th	5	2.9%

Nearby

Within 50 km of this data center: 189 substations, 82 power plants (50 operating, 2,410 MW), 7 CO2 emitters (2,612,062 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
FRA27-NEA01 (Frankfurt am Main)	Power plant	54.5 MW	Operating	0.0 km
FRA17-NEA07 (Frankfurt am Main)	Power plant	16.5 MW	Operating	0.1 km
Biomasse-Kraftwerk Fechenheim GmbH	Power plant	11.3 MW	Operating	1.0 km
110 kV substation (OSM way/613862764)	Substation	—	—	1.1 km
110 kV substation (OSM way/749551419)	Substation	—	—	1.5 km
110 KV Schaltanlage	Substation	—	—	1.7 km
Heizkraftwerk West	CO2 emitter	519,577 tCO2e	—	8.6 km
Kraftwerk Staudinger	CO2 emitter	261,600 tCO2e	—	15 km
Heizkraftwerk - Geb. D 580	CO2 emitter	781,158 tCO2e	—	15 km

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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.
European Commission, Union Registry. EU Union Registry public data, CC BY 4.0.
Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
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.