Data center · Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany
Rechenzentrum Equinix FR6 (Equinix FR6 data center)
Rechenzentrum Equinix FR6 is a data center in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany, with a 4,616 m² building, operated by Equinix. It lies 0.5 km from a 110 kV substation and is in an area of high water stress.
Power and water
The nearest substation is Umspannwerk Froschhäuser Straße, a 110 kV substation run by NRM Netzdienste Rhein-Main GmbH, 0.5 km away.
The nearest transmission substation (380 kV) is Umspannwerk Frankfurt Südwest, 2.2 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 | Frankfurt am Main (point in boundary) | BKG Verwaltungsgebiete 1:250 000 (VG250) · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Location | Hesse | OpenStreetMap data centers · record · ODbL 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Lärchenstraße 110, 65933 Frankfurt am Main | OpenStreetMap data centers · record · ODbL 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Equinix | OpenStreetMap data centers · record · ODbL 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Website | https://www.equinix.de/locations/germany-colocation/frankfurt-data-centers/fr6/ | OpenStreetMap data centers · record · ODbL 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Nearest substation | Umspannwerk Froschhäuser Straße (0.53 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 | 4,616 m² (building) | OpenStreetMap data centers · record · ODbL 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Nearest transmission substation | Umspannwerk Frankfurt Südwest (2.22 km away, at 380 kV) | Rare Context powered-land sites · ODbL 1.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 50.0969, 8.5883 | 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.
Request researchHow its operator compares
Equinix operates 15 of the 170 data centers in Germany in our data with a named owner; 1 owner has more. 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: 195 substations, 87 power plants (52 operating, 2,534 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR6 Generator 8 (Frankfurt am Main) | Power plant | 19.3 MW | Operating | 0.0 km |
| FR4 Generator F1 (Frankfurt am Main) | Power plant | 18.9 MW | Operating | 0.2 km |
| FR8 Generator B (Frankfurt am Main) | Power plant | 14.4 MW | Operating | 0.3 km |
| Umspannwerk Froschhäuser Straße | Substation | — | — | 0.5 km |
| 110 kV substation (OSM way/387444126) | Substation | — | — | 0.7 km |
| Umspannwerk Frankfurt Südwest | Substation | — | — | 2.2 km |
| Heizkraftwerk - Geb. D 580 | CO2 emitter | 781,158 tCO2e | — | 3.2 km |
| Universitaet Frankfurt Goethe-NHR | AI supercomputer | 80 H100e | Operating | 3.6 km |
| Heizkraftwerk West | CO2 emitter | 519,577 tCO2e | — | 4.0 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.