Aug 22, 2025 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji
A major renewable energy and AI data center campus is planned for Weida-Land in Germany.
Located in the Saxony-Anhalt municipality, the project will include a 500MW solar farm, 500MW/1,750MWh battery energy storage system (BESS), and an AI campus with a data center.
The solar parks will be deployed in phases up to 2028, with an eventual target of 500MW of capacity. The BESS will similarly gradually scale up in expansion phases and will use lithium iron phosphate technology.
Meanwhile, the data center campus will be built "modularly" during several construction phases over a period of eight to ten years. The first units are expected to be live by the end of this decade.
The majority of Germany's data centers are located in and around Frankfurt. Schraplau and the wider Saxony-Anhalt region are located southwest of Berlin, near Magdeburg. While Berlin has Germany's second-largest data center market, Magdeburg is home to few data centers, with T-Systems operating two data centers in the area and euNetworks operating one colocation facility.
