Data Center Consulting

NIS2-compliant. Experienced with KRITIS. Sovereign.

We protect your IT infrastructure according to the highest standards. With many years of expertise in secure data center operations.

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Comprehensive Infrastructure Consulting

Minimize Infrastructure Risks. Ensure Long-Term Digital Agility.

The demands placed on IT infrastructures are changing rapidly. Companies face the challenge of integrating increasing data volumes, regulatory requirements, AI applications, and growing security demands into a future-proof infrastructure strategy.

GRASS-MERKUR helps companies make the right decisions for their data center and infrastructure strategies—focusing on site selection, operating models, and investment planning rather than on individual technologies.

In this regard, we support companies with, among other things:

Data Center Strategy & Infrastructure Roadmap
Colocation Strategy & Site Evaluation
Capacity and Growth Planning
AI-Ready Infrastructure & High-Density Concepts
Sustainability & Energy Efficiency in Data Center Operations

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Overview

Our Key Areas of Expertise

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Colocation Strategy

The Right Location Strategy

Not every company has to run its own data center. We develop the right strategy between in-house operation, colocation and hybrid models.

We support you with:

Build-or-buy analyses
Evaluation of colocation models
Location and risk analyses
Availability and redundancy concepts
Scaling planning
Migration strategies

AI Infrastructures

Is Your Infrastructure Ready for AI?

The use of AI applications fundamentally changes the requirements placed on data centers. Higher computing power, greater energy demand and new cooling concepts call for an infrastructure designed for GPU workloads from the outset.

We support you with:

Planning of AI infrastructures
High-density rack concepts
GPU workloads
Power and cooling strategies
Scaling of HPC environments

Sustainability & Energy Efficiency

Sustainability as an Economic Factor

Sustainability has long been more than a regulatory topic — it directly affects operating costs, investment decisions and your company's competitiveness.

We support you with:

Energy-efficient infrastructure concepts
EnEfG requirements
ESG strategies
Optimization of energy consumption
CO₂ reduction potential

Cyber Compliance for Businesses

Successfully Implementing NIS2, KRITIS, and DORA

New legal requirements are placing significantly greater demands on operators and companies.

Our consulting services include:

NIS2 Readiness
KRITIS Requirements
DORA Requirements
ISO 27001-Based Infrastructure Assessments
Risk and Gap Analyses
Action and Implementation Planning

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Good Reasons

Why GRASS-MERKUR?

Operator Expertise, Not Theory

We do not just advise on data centers — we operate critical infrastructure ourselves in colocation, managed services, connectivity, security services and cloud services.

Strategies That Prove Themselves in Practice

Our experience comes from day-to-day operations, not from the drawing board. That is how solutions emerge that work beyond paper.

Experience with Critical Infrastructure

From mid-sized companies through operators of critical infrastructure to financial service providers and public institutions.

Also for AI and HPC Requirements

We also support companies with growing requirements for AI infrastructure and high-performance computing.

Strategy Rooted in Practice

Benefit from genuine operator expertise — for solutions that prove themselves in practice, not just on paper.

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Contact

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Tell us about your project — we will get back to you with a concrete assessment.

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GRASS-MERKUR GmbH & Co. KG
Rothwiese 5
30559 Hannover

Your contact will advise you personally — by phone or on site.

Georg Ahlbrand

Business Development Manager