The Frankfurt Administrative Court has decided that Mainova Webhouse cannot build a new data center campus in Seckbach due to its connections to the city of Frankfurt.
As reported by the Frankfurter Rundschau, the lawsuit has noted that the parent company of Mainova Webhouse is in Frankfurt's energy supplier Mainova, the city of which the majority of the majority of the majority is.
Blackrock actually had 50.1 percent shares in the Mainova -Webhaus, but indirect relationships with the city have led to criticism, since the city can only participate in commercial activities if “the purpose is not so well and economically fulfilled by a private third party”, reports, reports, reports in accordance with Section 121 of the Hessian community.
The court also decided that, despite the city's argument that the new Mainova Webhouse Center Center should fall under the “Grandfather” principle, the new building was actually a significant extent and is not covered.
According to Gerhard Budde, head of the legal department for the city of Frankfurt, the city will decide whether it should make an appeal as soon as it receives the written judgment, even though the conviction that the data center project is covered by the Hessian community code.
DCD has turned to Mainova Webhouse to get a comment.
Mainova Webhouse secured € 475 million ($ 501 million) for the financing of data center projects in Frankfurt in November 2024 to be used to build its two data center campus in the Frankfurt area.
The campus in question is a 30 -MW data center Campus in the Seckbach area of Frankfurt, which is already at least partially ready for operation, and a 20 -MW location south of Frankfurt in Langen. The company laid the foundation in a second 10 MW building on the Seckbach campus at the beginning of this year.
Based on earlier reports, the lawsuit originates in the move of the city to assign areas of the city for certain industries, including data centers. It is likely that the company that submitted a lawsuit was global Switch. FR quoted a legal challenge in December 2024 for Jens Leutcher, Managing Director of Global Switch.
In 2022, the city council of the city of Frankfurt am Main opted for “long -term urban development goals” for the city as a whole, which would include the determination of areas of the city for certain industrial and commercial developments – including computing centers.
In December 2024, the city council filled these plans, including a development plan “No. 946 – east of the A5 / Eschborn Landstrasse – Section 1”, which contained land from Global Switch.
The Global Switch data center in Frankfurt currently comprises two data centers: Frankfurt South with 17,686 m² (190,370 m²) room and Frankfurt Nord with 11,862 m² (127,682 square meters). Frankfurt North was completed in March 2024 by Mercury Engineering, the main contractor.