Innovative.
Our own cooling technology, modular data centres and the complete AI stack: we develop technology around the task.
We take infrastructure further
HIGH KNOWLEDGE · DATA CENTRES · SOVEREIGN AI
Innovative thinking. Sustainable planning. Expert delivery. We connect practical data centre experience with sovereign AI, from the technical foundation to the digital employee.
Sustainable.
We consider energy, cooling and waste heat together, with transparent project objectives and measurement boundaries.
Expert.
Consulting, design, construction, assessment and operation work together. Clear interfaces support sound decisions.
Experienced.
Our founder brings more than 25 years of professional experience in IT and infrastructure. That practical knowledge shapes our work.
ENGINEERING WITH FORESIGHT
Individual components become a coherent whole.
High Knowledge connects IT, buildings and operations. We support data centres, server rooms and IT office buildings from initial feasibility assessment through implementation and ongoing support.
Our ambition for sovereign AI goes further: we deliver hardware, local models, company knowledge and applications as a coordinated AI stack. Your digital employee receives the tools, data and approvals that fit your business.
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STANDARDS MEET PRACTICE
We apply standards.
And help shape them.
Managing Director Harry Knopf contributes to standardisation for data centres and artificial intelligence. This connects both worlds: physical infrastructure and the systems running on it.
RECHENZENTREN
DIN EN 50600 · DKE/GK 719
Harry Knopf is a member of DKE/GK 719 “Data Centres”. The committee addresses system-level standardisation for data centres and their infrastructure.
View the committee at DKE ↗ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
DIN/DKE · CEN/CLC/JTC 21
Harry Knopf contributes to AI standardisation through the DIN/DKE joint committee on artificial intelligence and the European CEN/CLC/JTC 21 Artificial Intelligence.
AI standards and our work ↗FROM THE FIRST IDEA TO OPERATION
One point of contact.
The complete picture.
As lead designer and general contractor, we coordinate technical disciplines and deliver turnkey data centres. We also undertake our own development and manufacturing in Germany and supply, install and maintain data centre components.
High Knowledge offers its own certifications based on DIN EN 50600 and ISO/IEC 22237, as well as the Sustainable Data Center certification system. For other procedures, we support preparation, evidence and audits within the agreed scope.
Member of TÜV Rheinland Berlin Brandenburg Pfalz e. V.
Qualifications and assessment servicesThe people behind High Knowledge.
Experience in business leadership, planning and engineering, united by the ambition to deliver your project as a whole.
Harry Knopf
CEO
Business graduate, data centre planner and IT specialist with more than 25 years of professional experience in senior roles, including at General Electric, Kyocera and Eaton. Founder, Managing Director and owner of High Knowledge GmbH.
Member of DKE/GK 719 “Data Centres” and contributor to German and European AI standardisation.
Martin Vogt
CTO
Our Technical Director has more than 12 years of professional experience in the planning, engineering and construction of data centres and their infrastructure. Holding degrees in engineering and business administration, Martin Vogt specialises in electrical engineering, power supply, general planning and project coordination.
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