Green celebrates its 30th anniversary

Green is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year and an impressive development: the Internet provider from the very beginning has become a nationwide provider of broadband Internet and hosting services for private and public customers. Company has become. With its four locations, the company is now one of the leading data center providers in Switzerland and plays a central role in the country's digital infrastructure.

Three decades of innovation and growth

Since its foundation, Green has recognized new technologies early on and consistently translated them into solutions for a networked, secure digital future. The internet and hosting business has been continuously expanded through organic growth and targeted acquisitions.

The history of green.ch begins in 1995, when the Swiss Farmers' Union began offering the first Internet access (at local rates) under agri.ch. In 1998, agri.ch became an independent public limited company and was renamed green.ch in 2001 following a change of ownership. In 2008, the company was taken over by Solution 25 AG, based in Central Switzerland, merged with its subsidiary TIC the Internet Company and continued under the name green.ch. In 2002, green.ch entered the forward-looking data center business, which it has been running under Green Datacenter AG since 2010. In 2016, Green becomes fully part of the Luxembourg-based telecoms group Altice, which had already been a shareholder since 2008. Green was subsequently acquired by InfraVia Capital Partners, an investment company specializing in the European infrastructure sector, in February 2018. Since 2021, green.ch AG and Green Datacenter AG have been operating together under the new Green brand.

Further strategic milestones

Green tripled its data center capacity between 2019 and 2024. With the opening of the first high-performance data center for cloud providers (hyperscalers) in Switzerland in 2019 and the subsequent planning of a new campus in Dielsdorf, the company expanded its leading position. The Metro Campus Zurich is a major project with three high-performance data centers and office buildings. The first data center was put into operation at the beginning of 2023, and the start of construction of two further data centers on the campus was announced in autumn 2023.

The recently announced partnership with Salt marked a milestone, as a result of which Green now has unique fiber network coverage. The company offers access to the networks of Swisscom, Salt and over 80 local providers. "We have established a customer- and market-oriented offering with a focus on service quality and customer satisfaction," says CEO Roger Süess. Under the anniversary motto "30 years happy with Green", the company is thanking new and existing customers with promotions and competitions.

Data centers as the foundation of the digital future

The potential of data centers was recognized early on: The first data center spaces were set up as early as 2002. Today, the company operates six high-performance data centers and is the only provider in Switzerland with the internationally recognized M&O Stamp of Approval from the Uptime Institute - the leading standard for the operation and management of mission-critical data centers. "Data centers are the backbone of digitalization: for companies, the economy and society," says Franz Grüter, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Green. The expansion continues: two new data centers are currently being built in Dielsdorf and another in Lupfig. "We are creating the infrastructure on which digital Switzerland can grow," explains Roger Süess, adding: "Digitalization is here to stay - and it requires an infrastructure that is efficient, sustainable and secure."

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(The article was updated on April 25, 2025)