Hetzner — Falkenstein Data Center Park

Hetzner’s Falkenstein Data Center Park (FSN) in Falkenstein/Vogtland, Saxony, is the company’s second major campus and a critical GPU infrastructure node for European AI workloads. Falkenstein complements the Nuremberg campus in capacity distribution, geographic redundancy, and — importantly — physical distance from Nuremberg (approximately 180 km), allowing Hetzner to offer multi-site redundancy across two German federal states.

The Vogtland region of Saxony sits near the borders of Germany, the Czech Republic, and Austria, and its industrial heritage dates to textile manufacturing and precision engineering. Unlike greenfield Silicon Valley data center locations, Falkenstein’s facilities occupy industrial-style buildings in a densely networked fiber corridor linking Central Germany to the Czech internet exchange (NIX.CZ) and the DE-CIX Frankfurt exchange hub — providing low-latency access across Central and Eastern Europe.

Falkenstein hosts the GEX131 dedicated server configuration — Hetzner’s flagship AI GPU server featuring NVIDIA H100 SXM4 (80 GB HBM3) with 700W TDP and NVLink support for GPU pairs. The GEX131 is designed for three primary AI use cases: large language model (LLM) training and fine-tuning, 3D scene rendering and generative image/video model serving, and high-throughput batch inference for enterprise AI pipelines. Hetzner’s pricing model for GEX servers is distinctively different from cloud GPU pricing: dedicated hardware billed hourly with no hypervisor virtualization overhead, meaning customers get the full memory bandwidth and interconnect performance of the physical GPU without multi-tenancy interference.

Saxony is home to major semiconductor manufacturing (Globalfoundries Dresden, Infineon Dresden, TSMC’s European fab at Dresden announced 2023), creating a cluster of semiconductor and hardware engineering talent that intersects with cloud AI infrastructure. The state government’s Saxony Digital strategy supports data center and cloud investment as part of rebuilding Saxony’s post-industrial economic base.

The facility is powered by 100% renewable energy, consistent with Hetzner’s group-wide commitment, and shares the EMAS environmental certification framework with the Nuremberg campus.

Hardware: NVIDIA H100 SXM4 (GEX131 nodes) · 80 GB HBM3 VRAM · 700W TDP · Energy: 100% renewable electricity · Network: Low-latency Central European backbone (DE-CIX + NIX.CZ peering)