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Assessments of data centers, energy and digital sovereignty – in the Wall Street Journal, the FAZ, BILD and the trade press.
KURZPROFIL
Jerome Evans is the founder and CEO of firstcolo, a Frankfurt-based data center operator with approximately 80 employees and over 350 customers. He has been a member of the board of the German Datacenter Association since 2026. Through Evalue Capital GmbH, he invests in technology companies and real estate.
TOPICS
Power and network connections for data centers, approval procedures, digital sovereignty and the US Cloud Act, AI infrastructure in Germany, data centers as a location factor for municipalities – and the perspective of a founder who has been building in this industry for 20 years.
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Selected articles
In the podcast of BILD's deputy editor Paul Ronzheimer (40), entrepreneur Evans, founder of firstcolo GmbH (approx. 100 employees, €23 million in annual revenue), speaks frankly about the situation in Germany: "You just want to bang your head against the desk and ask yourself: Can it really be that in a country like Germany we have to wait ten years for electricity infrastructure?" Evans's case even made it into the US business newspaper "Wall Street Journal." The Americans report with astonishment that electricity is now becoming scarce in the very land of engineers. The timing of the electricity crisis couldn't be worse. The world's most important technology, artificial intelligence, requires ever more energy.
One of the largest European infrastructure investors is acquiring a majority stake in firstcolo – the founding team remains on board.
In the podcast by BILD vice-editor Paul Ronzheimer, Jerome Evans speaks plainly: Why a company in Frankfurt has to wait ten years for electricity – and what that means for Germany as a business location.
The Wall Street Journal on Europe's energy transition – with firstcolo as an example of how electricity shortages in Germany are slowing down investments.