After the devastating flood in Lower Austria in 2024, the IT infrastructure of the Würth branch in Böheimkirchen came to a complete standstill. With a container solution from EPS Electric Power Systems deployed at short notice, operations were quickly restored and a second data center was set up in the long term.
Maria-Anzbach/Böheimkirchen, 11 September 2025 – The flood event in Lower Austria in autumn 2024 was one of the most serious in decades. The municipality of Böheimkirchen was particularly affected, where entire streets were under water – including the premises of Würth Austria. In addition to structural damage, the IT infrastructure was particularly affected: The server room in the basement was completely under water – all IT services were paralyzed.
In order to quickly restore operations, Würth relied on a mobile and immediately available solution from EPS Electric Power Systems. Within a few days, EPS installed a data center container (DC CONT) directly on the company premises – including complete cabling and operational infrastructure. The temporary emergency solution was provided free of charge by EPS and quickly proved to be a reliable replacement for the failed server room.
“When it became clear that our server room was unusable due to the flooding, it was clear to us that we immediately needed a functioning alternative to protect our IT systems. The container solution enabled us to rebuild stable IT operations within a few days – and with significantly higher reliability than before,” says Alfred Wurmbrand, Managing Director of Würth Austria.
Second data center permanently in use
In addition to restoring IT operations, the container solution brought long-term benefits: IT cooling is provided by RCS server racks with integrated, adjustable cold air fins and cold/hot aisle separation. This increases energy efficiency and reduces CO₂ emissions at the same time. The refrigeration is carried out in redundancy level 2N, as are the IT switchgear and the IT UPS systems. In addition, the waste heat from IT is used to heat the building.
The originally planned emergency solution became a sustainable permanent solution: Today, Würth operates the new data center permanently in the data center container, thus creating a future-proof IT infrastructure for the headquarters, logistics in Böheimkirchen and the 80 shops in Austria.
“When I arrived, I was deeply shaken. This devastation and the oppressive silence, I had never seen anything like it. It was immediately clear to me that our task is to provide a practicable and resilient solution as quickly as possible, even in such a crisis situation. With the container solution, Würth was not only able to react in the short term, but at the same time create a strategically sensible expansion of the IT infrastructure that can be used in the long term,” says Peter Reisinger, Managing Director of EPS.
The project scope in detail
- IT-DCC 20 Foot Container EI90 ISO High Cube
- IT-DCC raised floor for data center with IT whitespace
- IT-DCC Cable Routing System for Fiber Optic & CU Data Cabling
- IT-DCC RCS server/network racks with integrated cold aisle sealing and targeted cold air supply
- IT-DCC RZ air conditioning system in redundancy level 2N
- Modular and scalable IT UPS system with 20KVA
- IT switchgear
- IT-DCC Early Fire Detection
- IT-DCC Fire Prevention System
