P&T Luxembourg subsidiary ebrc has opened a new Tier IV data center in Betzdorf, Luxembourg East, with 5,000 sq m of white space.

The European Reliance Centre Luxembourg East is the group’s fifth data center, and has been designed for cloud computing and IT managed services.

The data center uses free cooling for 90% of the year and has been built to meet values promoted as part of E.A.R.T.H, the company’s environmental and sustainability values which call for all data centers to be optimized for energy efficiency.

P&T CEO Claude Strasser said the data center is well connected, and not only through links to its other data centers.

“The location of Betzdorf is probably unique in Europe with this Tier IV Data Center, the presence of the global satellite operator SES and our European high-speed data-network Teralink,” Strasser said.

“Betzdorf is a highly interesting location to attract multimedia companies and we are proud to contribute thus to the ‘Hub Multimedia Luxembourg."

The data center has been certified for ISO 20000 for IT service management, ISO27001 for data security and has PCI compliance.

Last year the company’s Resilience Centre Luxembourg West data center and Resilience Center Luxembourg South both received Tier IV certification. The company also has two data centers in Luxembourg City.