Hetzner — Nuremberg Data Center Park

Hetzner's Nuremberg Data Center Park (NUE) is the company's primary campus and one of Europe's largest independent data center parks operated by a mid-size cloud provider. Nuremberg has been Hetzner's home city since the company's founding in 1997, and the campus has grown over three decades to become a multi-building complex offering dedicated servers, cloud compute, and — increasingly — GPU AI infrastructure.

Hetzner occupies a distinctive position in the European AI compute market: it offers GPU infrastructure at a price point significantly below AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure, making it the first-choice provider for European developers, AI researchers, and startups who need high-performance compute without enterprise pricing. The company's GEX server line, introduced and expanded in 2025-2026, features NVIDIA H100 SXM4 and RTX 6000 Ada GPUs in dedicated server configurations — hourly-billed, highly configurable, and available without long-term commitment. The RTX 6000 Ada GPU (with 48 GB GDDR6 ECC VRAM) is particularly popular for LLM inference and fine-tuning workloads where full data center-grade GPU memory capacity matters.

Nuremberg is located in Bavaria, a German federal state with a strong industrial and tech heritage. Bavaria hosts headquarters of BMW, Siemens, MAN, and numerous Mittelstand (mid-size industrial) companies, many of which are Hetzner enterprise customers for AI development sandboxes and model serving. The city's proximity to Munich's larger tech ecosystem (about 150 km) and access to Bavarian universities including FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg makes Nuremberg a practical hub for academic-adjacent AI research.

Hetzner completed EMAS (EU Eco-Management and Audit Scheme) certification for Nuremberg — a rigorous EU environmental management standard for industrial facilities — and the campus is powered by 100% renewable energy (primarily German wind and solar). This certification is significant for enterprise customers with ESG reporting obligations under the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), who need documented carbon-free compute for Scope 2 emissions accounting.

**Hardware**: NVIDIA H100 SXM4 · NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada · dedicated GPU server fleet · **Energy**: 100% renewable electricity (EMAS certified) · **Model**: Dedicated server + GPU Droplets (no shared tenancy by default)