Thanks to Cube Infrastructure Managers, firstcolo is embarking on a new growth path: diva-e Datacenters GmbH is becoming firstcolo GmbH and will place an even stronger focus on sustainability and high quality standards going forward. With 100% green electricity and energy-efficient data centers, the success story continues. Discover the future of data centers with firstcolo and Cube!
diva-e Datacenters GmbH becomes firstcolo GmbH – sustainability and the high quality standards of our data centers will be even more in focus going forward
We welcome the independent infrastructure fund Cube Infrastructure Managers as a new shareholder. This also means that, effective October 10, 2022, diva-e Datacenters GmbH was renamed firstcolo GmbH. Apart from that, nothing changes for customers and partners: You will continue to be supported in the existing data center space and by the familiar firstcolo staff – day-to-day operations will continue unchanged.
The firstcolo team would like to sincerely thank diva-e! Thanks to the close collaboration with our colleagues at diva-e, firstcolo was able to gain many new, valuable insights and further establish itself in the industry as a data center operator. Together, we were able to win numerous enterprise customers, including some of Germany’s largest companies.
Due to strong demand for firstcolo’s data center space, we were able to significantly increase our revenue and integrate new high-growth products such as private cloud solutions for our customers.
This resulted in firstcolo’s successful development into a data center platform with significant growth potential, which will continue to strongly pursue technological progress and sustainability in order to continue the success story. In doing so, we will continue to work closely with diva-e as a technology partner.
The existing Managing Directors, Jerome Evans and Nicolaj Kamensek, will remain actively involved with firstcolo GmbH in the long term as shareholders and Managing Directors.
The firstcolo team would like to sincerely thank diva-e! Thanks to the close collaboration with our colleagues at diva-e, firstcolo was able to gain many new, valuable insights and further establish itself in the industry as a data center operator. Together, we were able to win numerous enterprise customers, including some of Germany’s largest companies.
Due to strong demand for firstcolo’s data center space, we were able to significantly increase our revenue and integrate new high-growth products such as private cloud solutions for our customers.
This resulted in firstcolo’s successful development into a data center platform with significant growth potential, which will continue to strongly pursue technological progress and sustainability in order to continue the success story. In doing so, we will continue to work closely with diva-e as a technology partner.
The existing Managing Directors, Jerome Evans and Nicolaj Kamensek, will remain actively involved with firstcolo GmbH in the long term as shareholders and Managing Directors.
Cube Infrastructure Managers is an independent management company focused on sustainable investments in European infrastructure through its brownfield funds (Cube I, Cube II and Cube III). In doing so, it can draw on many years of international experience and extensive expertise in industry and management.
The focus is on energy supply, communications infrastructure and public transport. Cube firmly believes that environmental, social and governance criteria—ESG for short—are one of the key factors in minimizing risk while creating added value for the infrastructure companies in which the funds invest.
One of the core aspects is renewable energy, in which Cube has already made investments in photovoltaics, hydropower, wind power and energy generation from waste. Efficient heating and cooling are considered particularly important, as they can significantly reduce energy consumption.
This is where we come in: All firstcolo data centers are operated with 100% green electricity from renewable energy sources, with a PUE value of up to 1.25 for efficient energy consumption, meaning only a small share of additional power outside the IT equipment is required.
In the medium term, new prospects are opening up: Together with our new partner, we will be able to accelerate our growth even further; this includes expanding additional data center capacity in Frankfurt am Main as well as new data center locations in German metropolitan regions. We will maintain a long-term technology partnership with diva-e.
By joining forces, we will bring the topic of sustainability even more to the forefront. Even today, we are very well positioned thanks to 100% green electricity and industry-leading energy efficiency (PUE), and in the future further opportunities will open up to reduce our ecological footprint—while also achieving additional cost savings.
Jerome Evans, CEO of firstcolo, comments as follows: “Through the collaboration with diva-e and EMERAM, firstcolo has developed from a founder-led company into a platform with significant growth potential. Over the past five years, we have more than doubled our revenue and expanded into new areas such as the private cloud.
With Cube, we have gained a long-term owner who will support us in our ambitions to drive future development forward. The goal is to triple data center capacity over the next 5 years. In the future, we will build additional data centers with industry-leading PUE values in terms of energy efficiency. Together, we will continue our growth path in an increasingly digitalized society.”
We look forward to working with Cube Infrastructure Managers in the future. Their focus is on local infrastructure assets in areas such as telecommunications, district heating, mobility and electric vehicle charging stations. Cube has raised €4.0 billion across four Europe-focused funds and made more than 30 investments—so our new shareholder brings deep knowledge and extensive experience that will now benefit us. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at any time.
