Data center · Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
NSA Rechenzentrum
NSA Rechenzentrum is a data center in Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany, with a 4,448 m² building. It lies 3.2 km from a 380 kV substation and is in an area of low water stress.
Power and water
The nearest substation is Umspannanlage Pfungstadt, a 380 kV substation run by Amprion GmbH, 3.2 km away.
Water stress here is low: withdrawals take 1.6% of the renewable water supply of its sub-basin (WRI Aqueduct 4.0, baseline, score 0 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 | Darmstadt (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 |
| Nearest substation | Umspannanlage Pfungstadt (3.15 km away, at 380 kV) | Rare Context powered-land sites · ODbL 1.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Water stress | Low (under 10%) (score 0 of 5, withdrawals 1.6% of renewable supply) | WRI Aqueduct 4.0 · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Building footprint | 4,448 m² (building) | OpenStreetMap data centers · record · ODbL 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Nearest transmission substation | Umspannanlage Pfungstadt (3.15 km away, at 380 kV) | Rare Context powered-land sites · ODbL 1.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 49.8440, 8.5848 | OpenStreetMap data centers · record · ODbL 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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Within 50 km of this data center: 222 substations, 99 power plants (68 operating, 2,827 MW), 13 CO2 emitters (9,096,360 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Umspannanlage Pfungstadt | Substation | — | — | 3.2 km |
| Umspannanlage Süd | Substation | — | — | 3.7 km |
| 110 kV substation (OSM way/28369864) | Substation | — | — | 4.3 km |
| PV-Carports-Riedstadt | Power plant | 14.5 MW | Operating | 7.5 km |
| Photovoltaik-Kraftwerk Büttelborn | Power plant | 17.1 MW | Planned | 8.1 km |
| hessian.AI fortytwo | AI supercomputer | 199 H100e | Operating | 12 km |
| G-E0-070-GEN-4-GS-1 | Power plant | 115 MW | Operating | 17 km |
| Universitaet Frankfurt Goethe-NHR | AI supercomputer | 80 H100e | Operating | 28 km |
| Heizkraftwerk - Geb. D 580 | CO2 emitter | 781,158 tCO2e | — | 28 km |
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.