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.

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

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
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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
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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
  • COâ‚‚ reduction potential
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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

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

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Your GRASS-MERKUR contact: Georg Ahlbrand - Business Development & Sales

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