Germany / Deutschland Data Center News

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 be completed by the end of 2027, though local authorities have not disclosed its planned capacity. ...

July 11, 2026

Germany / Deutschland

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 Frisia, with potential to expand grid capacity to 300MW. The plan received a hostile response at a Jun...

July 01, 2026

Germany / Deutschland

Hochtief Begins Construction on New Data Center in Herne

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...

May 25, 2026

Germany / Deutschland

A Data Center is Planned in Wilhelmshaven, Germany

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 m...

May 23, 2026

Germany / Deutschland

New DMO Data Center Goes Live in Germany

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...

May 05, 2026

Germany / Deutschland

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

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 de...

April 20, 2026

Germany / Deutschland

Virtus Starts on 204MW Data Center Campus Near Berlin

European data center operator Virtus has begun construction of a 204MW facility outside Berlin, Germany. Located around 12km (7.4 miles) west of the capital in the municipality of Wustermark, the company plans to invest a total of €3 billion ($3.5 billion) in the project.“This ambitious undert...

April 15, 2026

Berlin

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

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 ap...

March 30, 2026

Germany / Deutschland

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

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.Wh...

March 17, 2026

Germany / Deutschland

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

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 electri...

March 13, 2026

Germany / Deutschland

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

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 Aiwang...

March 03, 2026

Germany / Deutschland

AEW Aquires Aventos’ Fully Leased Data Center in Nuremberg, Germany

German real estate firm Aventos has sold a data center in Nuremberg to real estate investor AEW. Built in 2010, the 2,590 sqm facility is fully leased to a global technology company under a long-term double-net lease.“In view of the currently very high demand for data centers on the real estat...

February 12, 2026

Nuremberg / Nürnberg

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

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...

December 06, 2025

Germany / Deutschland

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

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 be...

December 05, 2025

Germany / Deutschland

Siemens and Delta Partner on Modular Power Systems

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 perc...

November 20, 2025

Germany / Deutschland

Schwarz Breaks Ground on 200MW Facility in Germany

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...

November 20, 2025

Germany / Deutschland

Germany’s Rostock Government Breaks Ground on Data Center

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 infrastruc...

November 03, 2025

Germany / Deutschland

Wobcom Expands Data Center in Wolfsburg

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 hosting....

October 09, 2025

Germany / Deutschland

German Tax Office Launches New Data Center

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 Mini...

October 01, 2025

Germany / Deutschland

ChillMine Partners with AAAS Energy for Solar Powered Facility in Palpye, Botswana

AAAS Energy, a Dutch energy company, has partnered with ChillMine, a US cloud computing firm, to develop a solar-powered data center campus in Botswana. They signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to “establish a world-class facility designed to serve AI computing, global hyperscalers, and...

September 29, 2025

Munich-München

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