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Read Stack Infrastructure Cancels Planned Data Center in Hesse, Germany
A planned Stack Infrastructure data center in Hesse, Germany, has been canceled. The hyperscale facility, planned for a site near Babenhausen southeast of Frankfurt, was dropped due to uncertainty ...

Stack Infrastructure Cancels Planned Data Center in Hesse, Germany

July 18, 2026 Germany / Deutschland

A planned Stack Infrastructure data center in Hesse, Germany, has been canceled. The hyperscale facility, planned for a site near Babenhausen southeast of Frankfurt, was dropped due to uncertainty over local government support. The €3 billion ($3.4bn) project was expected to create up to 200...

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Read Construction Starts on Municipal Data Center in Meppen, Germany
A new municipal data center is under construction in Meppen, Lower Saxony, Germany, as part of Emsland’s broader IT infrastructure upgrade. The €3.4 million ($3.8 million) facility is expected to b...

Construction Starts on Municipal Data Center in Meppen, Germany

July 11, 2026 Germany / Deutschland

A new municipal data center is under construction in Meppen, Lower Saxony, Germany, as part of Emsland’s broader IT infrastructure upgrade. The €3.4 million ($3.8 million) facility is expected to be completed by the end of 2027, though local authorities have not disclosed its planned capacity....

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Read 150MW Data Center Planned in North Frisia, Germany, Draws Protests
A 150MW data center proposed in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany, has faced local opposition. Developed by Uniq Land, the project would be built on a 55,000 sqm site near Langenhorn in North Fr...

150MW Data Center Planned in North Frisia, Germany, Draws Protests

July 01, 2026 Germany / Deutschland

A 150MW data center proposed in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany, has faced local opposition. Developed by Uniq Land, the project would be built on a 55,000 sqm site near Langenhorn in North Frisia, with potential to expand grid capacity to 300MW. The plan received a hostile response at a...

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Read Hochtief Begins Construction on New Data Center in Herne
Hochtief Begins Construction on New Data Center in Herne

Hochtief Begins Construction on New Data Center in Herne

May 25, 2026 Germany / Deutschland

Yorizon and ACS-owned construction firm Hochtief have broken ground on a new data center in Herne, located in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The facility will be the third ‘Yexio’ data center the companies are developing in the region and the fourth across Germany. The project forms part of...

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Read A Data Center is Planned in Wilhelmshaven, Germany
A Data Center is Planned in Wilhelmshaven, Germany

A Data Center is Planned in Wilhelmshaven, Germany

May 23, 2026 Germany / Deutschland

A large, unnamed developer is planning a data center and energy park near Wilhelmshaven in Sengwarden, Lower Saxony, with project costs estimated in the billions of euros. The exact scale and purpose of the facility have not yet been disclosed.Few additional details have been released by the...

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Read New DMO Data Center Goes Live in Germany
New DMO Data Center Goes Live in Germany

New DMO Data Center Goes Live in Germany

May 05, 2026 Germany / Deutschland

Datacenter Münster Osnabrück (DMO) has brought its data center outside Münster, Germany, online. Located at Münster Osnabrück Airport, the first phase of the facility offering 1MW of capacity has been operational since April 15.The facility has been in development since 2022, with construction...

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Read Kauri Buys 55,000 sqm Plot in Hochheim for Data Center
Kauri Buys 55,000 sqm Plot in Hochheim for Data Center

Kauri Buys 55,000 sqm Plot in Hochheim for Data Center

April 20, 2026 Germany / Deutschland

German asset manager Kauri has acquired a 55,000 sqm (592,000 sq ft) site in Hochheim for the development of a data center. Kauri paid €24 million ($28.2 million) for the plot, located between Frankfurter Strasse and the B40. According to Frankfurter Neue Presse, the facility is expected to...

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Read Research Institutions Collaborate on New HPC Data Center in Berlin, Germany
Research Institutions Collaborate on New HPC Data Center in Berlin, Germany

Research Institutions Collaborate on New HPC Data Center in Berlin, Germany

March 30, 2026 Germany / Deutschland

The Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB) and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) have partnered to build an AI and HPC data center in Berlin’s Adlershof area. Announced by Adlershof Technology Park on March 27, the facility will be developed in multiple phases to support high-performance computing and AI...

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Read Plans are Underway for a 360MW Data Center Campus on Germany’s Eastern Border
Plans are Underway for a 360MW Data Center Campus on Germany’s Eastern Border

Plans are Underway for a 360MW Data Center Campus on Germany’s Eastern Border

March 17, 2026 Germany / Deutschland

Stadtwerke Lübeck has launched its first self-operated data center in the northern German city of Lübeck. Built to strengthen the city’s digital sovereignty, the facility will support business-critical and sensitive applications for local companies and features multiple layers of redundancy.While...

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Read Plans Announced for 40MW Data Center in Industrial Park Near Butzbach, Germany
Plans Announced for 40MW Data Center in Industrial Park Near Butzbach, Germany

Plans Announced for 40MW Data Center in Industrial Park Near Butzbach, Germany

March 13, 2026 Germany / Deutschland

A 40MW data center is proposed for an industrial park near Butzbach, about 35km (22 miles) north of Frankfurt, Germany.The project is in its early stages and will involve multiple partners, including energy company RheinEnergie.The first phase of the facility will require up to 10MW of electrical...

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Read Hochtief has Broken Ground on its Latest Yexio Edge Data Center in Dorfen, Germany
Hochtief has Broken Ground on its Latest Yexio Edge Data Center in Dorfen, Germany

Hochtief has Broken Ground on its Latest Yexio Edge Data Center in Dorfen, Germany

March 03, 2026 Germany / Deutschland

Construction company Hochtief has broken ground on a new timber-built edge data center for Yexio in Dorfen, Germany. The facility is being developed on a 7,500 sqm (80,729 sq ft) site at the Southwest Industrial Park in Dorfen, located in Bavaria’s Erding district, east of Munich.Hubert Aiwanger,...

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Read Aventos Sells Planned Data Center Site in Berlin to Tristan Capital Partners
Aventos Sells Planned Data Center Site in Berlin to Tristan Capital Partners

Aventos Sells Planned Data Center Site in Berlin to Tristan Capital Partners

December 06, 2025 Germany / Deutschland

German real estate firm Aventos this week announced the sale of a property in the immediate vicinity of its Luxwerk business park to Tristan Capital Partners’ EPISO 6 fund. Terms of the deal were not shared.The 28,400 sqm (305,695 sq ft) site can reportedly support up to three three-story data...

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Read WBS Power Forms JV with Prime Capital to Develop 500MW Data Center
WBS Power Forms JV with Prime Capital to Develop 500MW Data Center

WBS Power Forms JV with Prime Capital to Develop 500MW Data Center

December 05, 2025 Germany / Deutschland

European renewable energy developer WBS Power has established a joint venture with Prime Capital to construct a 500MW hyperscale data center at a former military airfield in Brandenburg, Germany.The project includes a 500MW/2,000MWh BESS and up to 150MW of solar, with construction slated to begin...

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Read Siemens and Delta Partner on Modular Power Systems
Siemens and Delta Partner on Modular Power Systems

Siemens and Delta Partner on Modular Power Systems

November 20, 2025 Germany / Deutschland

German tech company Siemens has partnered with Taiwanese power solutions firm Delta Power to provide prefabricated, modular power solutions for data centers in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. The modular, scalable design offering will reduce time-to-market for data centers by up to 50 percent...

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Read Schwarz Breaks Ground on 200MW Facility in Germany
Schwarz Breaks Ground on 200MW Facility in Germany

Schwarz Breaks Ground on 200MW Facility in Germany

November 20, 2025 Germany / Deutschland

The owner of German supermarket chain Lidl has broken ground on a new data center in Lübbenau, Germany, to host its cloud division. The 13-hectare brownfield site was previously the Lübbenau power plant. Schwartz said more than 20,000 cubic meters of concrete and stones, 110 tons of steel, and 20...

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Read Germany’s Rostock Government Breaks Ground on Data Center
Germany’s Rostock Government Breaks Ground on Data Center

Germany’s Rostock Government Breaks Ground on Data Center

November 03, 2025 Germany / Deutschland

The Rostock government of Northern Germany last week broke ground on a new municipal facility in Toitenwinkel. The 300kW site will feature 90 sqm (969 sq ft) of white space across two data halls. The government said the facility will secure and modernize the city administration’s IT...

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Read Wobcom Expands Data Center in Wolfsburg
Wobcom Expands Data Center in Wolfsburg

Wobcom Expands Data Center in Wolfsburg

October 09, 2025 Germany / Deutschland

German telecoms firm Wobcom this week announced it is expanding its data center in Wolfsburg's Nordkopf Tower by a new floor, taking its total to five floors within the building. The new floor is already leased to Host-Unlimited.de, a brand of Bieber IT GmbH focusing on cloud and game...

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Read German Tax Office Launches New Data Center
German Tax Office Launches New Data Center

German Tax Office Launches New Data Center

October 01, 2025 Germany / Deutschland

Germany's Bavarian State Tax Office is set to get a new data center and construction has begun on the new data center, which is described as a "high-security" facility. The data center is a modular build and is being developed by Noris Network AG. It will be located in Nuremberg. Germany's...

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Read EcoDataCenter Raises $703m in Debt Financing
EcoDataCenter Raises $703m in Debt Financing

EcoDataCenter Raises $703m in Debt Financing

September 09, 2025 Germany / Deutschland

EcoDataCenter has secured €600 million ($703m) in debt financing from Deutsche Bank Private Credit and Infrastructure which will be used to develop AI data centers in Sweden.“AI infrastructure is a new base industry, and we are building one of Europe’s most exciting companies in the sector. We...

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Read SAP to Spend €20bn on European Sovereign Cloud
SAP to Spend €20bn on European Sovereign Cloud

SAP to Spend €20bn on European Sovereign Cloud

September 05, 2025 Germany / Deutschland

German software company SAP is planning to invest more than €20 billion ($23.3bn) in expanding its sovereign cloud offering in Europe which will span the next 10 years.Among SAP's plans is to bring an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform to its European cloud offerings, as well as...

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