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Assessments of data centers, energy and digital sovereignty – in the Wall Street Journal, the FAZ, BILD and the trade press.

SHORT PROFILE

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.

PRESS INQUIRIES

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Recent articles featuring Jerome

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Article from December 14, 2025: Company boss expected to wait 10 years for enough electricity

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.

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Article from December 1, 2025: The European energy crisis and the special situation in Germany.

European politicians pitched the continent’s green transition to voters as a win-win: Citizens would benefit from green jobs and cheap, abundant solar and wind energy alongside a sharp reduction in carbon emissions. Nearly two decades on, the promise has largely proved costly for consumers and damaging for the economy.

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Article from December 17, 2025: Electricity shortage in Germany

Firstcolo plans to expand two data centers in Frankfurt. The catch: The necessary electricity won't be available until 2035. Frankfurt – Electricity in Germany is expensive. And anyone who needs a lot of electricity quickly realizes that there's also too little of it. Firstcolo, for example, is currently facing a major problem. The Frankfurt-based company wants to expand two of its data centers in the city. The catch: The required electricity won't be available until 2035.

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Article from October 6, 2025: My new 24 MW AI data center in Rosbach vor der Höhe

Firstcolo, based in Frankfurt, plans to open a data center in Rosbach, near the city of Frankfurt, in 2027. The facility is expected to create more jobs than are typical for a data center. Jerome Evans intends to turn this challenge into an opportunity.

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