About us

Protecting tomorrow’s planet by taking action today with our commitment towards green data centres and decarbonisation!

AQ Compute provides green, flexible and modular data centre and colocation services – powered by renewable energy.
It pursues a pan-European data centre strategy and anticipates an ever-increasing demand for computing capacity with a strong focus on sustainability. Client data is hosted on sustainable infrastructure, which includes building materials, power supplies and the recovery of excess heat. Besides having ecological advantages, AQ Compute’s approach has economic advantages for its clients.

AQ Compute focuses on the European continent with an emphasis on secondary markets. Growing markets, such as the Nordics or the Iberian Peninsula, offer ideal conditions for the development and operation of sustainable data centres with excellent access to renewable energy.

To provide its clients with a wide range of locations, AQ Compute is working on entering additional markets in Europe. Its first data centres are located in Norway and Spain – with more to follow.

AQ Compute is a sub-brand of Aquila Group, an investment and asset development company focused on generating and managing essential assets on behalf of its clients.

Decarbonising your data

Our vision is to decarbonise the colocation and data centre industry across Europe.

Our mission is to provide modular, carbon-neutral data centre capacities across Europe, powered by renewable energy sources, following green building standards, recovering and recycling the energy and compensating for each MW used with another MW of renewable energy – enabling our clients to reduce their carbon footprints.

AQ Compute in a nutshell

AQ Compute’s vision is to decarbonise the
colocation and data centre industry across Europe.

AQ Compute benefits from Aquila Group’s long track record in the European renewable energy and sustainable infrastructure industries.

AQ Compute data centres are based on a holistic ecological concept and are subject to internationally recognised certification standards.

AQ Compute requires powerful and scalable solutions that can be fully customised.

Our commitment to sustainability

We have one planet for all time. A planet growing more connected day by day. We have the responsibilty to take care of it, for us and for future generations. Our higher goal is to protect our planet by taking action with our commitment towards green data centres.

In AQ Compute, every job is a green hire, the company team itself comprises knowledge workers who share the passion of a people, planet and profits culture. Everyone understands the climate issues, takes responsibility to learn the complexities, and focuses on solving the problems to alleviate the cascading impact for our clients. The AQ Compute Sustainability Leadership master the skills of tradeoffs to maximise data centre performance, lowering the costs of operations, minimising the environmental impact to achieve a sustainability data centre standard operating procedure lifestyle.

“AQ Compute strives to fulfill the responsibility to make a positive impact to people and planet through our commitment to continuously improve our data centre sustainability practices to deliver continuous growth and profits.” Henry Daunert, CEO, AQ Compute

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Aquila Group – a strong partner

By investing in clean energy and sustainable infrastructure, Aquila Group contributes to the global energy transition and strengthens the world’s infrastructure backbone. The company initiates, develops, and manages essential assets along the entire value chain and lifetime.

Currently, Aquila Group manages EUR 14.7 billion on behalf of institutional investors worldwide. Their primary objective is to generate performance for their clients by managing the complexity of essential assets. Aquila Group manages wind energy, solar PV and hydropower assets of 13.9 GW capacity (as at 31 December 2022).

The company has been carbon neutral since 2006 and aims to act carbon negative. Sustainability has always been part of Aquila Group’s value system and is an integral part of its investment strategies, processes, and management of its assets. The company has around 650 employees operating in 17 offices in 16 countries worldwide.

AQ Compute is part of Aquila Group and benefits from it’s long track record in the European renewable energy and sustainable infrastructure industry as well as from its broad expertise in establishing and managing long-term PPAs.

The team

Henry Daunert

Chief Executive Officer

As part of Aquila Group, we aim to operate our facilities with 100% renewable energy. This gives us a competitive advantage and enables us to participate strongly in the dynamically evolving market for computing capacity with a strong focus on sustainability. In my new role as CEO, I am very much looking forward to contributing to sustainable growth in this industry together with our team.

Andreas Myr

CEO AQ Compute Norway

We are creating data centre solutions which satisfy today’s needs.

Moreover, we are not endangering the possibilities for future generations due to our dedicated focus on sustainability and the use of clean energy.

Max Daunert

Chief Operating Officer

Our data centres are precisely designed to minimise environmental impact, embracing energy-efficient technologies and practices.

Our clients can operate their businesses in our data centre space with total security and reliability while minimising their carbon footprint.

Patrick Giangrosso

Chief Commercial Officer

Because the world's data centre industry needs to change. We are aware of our responsibility for the worldwide environment and culture.

AQ Compute data centres will make a decisive contribution to this.

Chris Ezennaya

Chief Project Director

Our data centres are designed and built to fill real customer needs.
With flexible options according to business demands, growth, and scalability, following optimal procedures and methodologies.

We're focused on the deployment of sustainable and efficient technologies, minimising carbon footprint.
Looking towards the already present future of our planet.

Jan Kohler

Director CEO Office & Investment Manager

For me, AQ Compute is special because of the dynamic and entrepreneurial expert team with unconventional thinking embedded in an established investment management company with direct access to renewable energy sources.

Yngve Thoresen

Project Director Nordics

We are helping to cover an ever-increasing need for data centre services while carefully keeping an eye on the future and delivering the most sustainable solutions.

Being allowed to work in a multinational environment to solve both technical and environmental challenges is what makes it absolutely right for me to work at AQ Compute.

Blanca Daunert

Marketing Executive

AQ Compute is a very inspirational project with a great challenge ahead!
It offers real solutions, for the creation and maintenance of its data centres, which are 100% committed to sustainability.

In addition, as a sub-brand of Aquila Group, AQ Compute inherits its principles and values as well as its broad expertise in terms of clean energy and sustainable infrastructure. The combination of all makes AQ Compute the perfect candidate to become a leader in sustainable data centres.

Jaime Comella

Lead Data Centre Architect

I stand for technology that serves human beings. This, for me, is an essential part of humanity’s progress.

At AQ Compute we want to build the best data centres for our clients and for society, because we believe it is the way we have to do it.

Stefanie Casall

Director Brand & Marketing

Passion drives us - passion for people and planet.
At AQ Compute we recognize the significant impact that data centres have on our environment. We take this responsibility seriously.

We are committed to being a powerful, honest and authentic data centre brand driven by the desire to make a positive impact for our planet, and to create a future where sustainability is a way of life.

Carl von Hessen

Head of Data Centre Investment

For me, AQ Compute brings together the two great strengths that Aquila Group offers.

Aquila Group is a pioneer in the investment sector. It manages a large and constantly growing portfolio of renewable energy assets and brings great expertise in the project development of sustainable infrastructure.

Bardiya Monzavi

Marketing Executive

It’s so refreshing to work with a team who are so dedicated to creating a truly sustainable future for the data centre industry and beyond.

AQ Compute enables me to place myself in a focused mindset, achieving monumental results with a world class team – for people, planet, and profit.

Geir M. Johansen

Manager Quality and Governance

AQ Compute is unique for me because of the fact that we are able to provide actual green renewable power to our data centres.

I also love to work in a great multinational teamwork spirit across trades and competence areas.

Máximo Escriche

Sales Manager Iberia

Our Colocation data centres are designed with flexibility, allowing our clients to customise and optimise their infrastructure according to their unique requirements.

Together, we'll explore an integrated approach to sustainability for end-to-end digital infrastructure and take immediate action to mitigate carbon emissions in the digital world.

Patricia Saenger

Marketing Associate

AQ Compute is a super motivating project with a DNA based on sustainability.
We want to create a data centre brand based on sustainability and efficiency.

This is a project born out of Aquila Group, a company that manages renewable energy production and storage assets with a capacity of around 13 GW.
So, this is much more than a passing trend.

Frithjof Scheel

Investment Analyst Real Estate

For me personally, AQ Compute stands out by setting ambitious sustainability goals from the get-go without accepting any compromises.

Become a team member

Imagine a world where people are acting every minute in an environmentally friendly way as they use their smartphones or undertake some internet research. Isn’t that incredibly calming?
We at AQ Compute will make data centres and their computing capacities greener.

We are looking for people who are ready to drive our mission forward. If you are ready to share your passion and energy for our mission, please get in touch.

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