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DMO launches data center outside Münster, Germany

Datacenter Münster Osnabrück (DMO) last month broke ground on its debut facility at Münster Osnabrück Airport in Greven. The first phase of construction will see more than €8 million ($8.3m) invested in developing a 500 sqm (5,380 sq ft) facility with capacity for 140 racks at densities up to ...

January 08, 2025

Germany / Deutschland

HPE to build Blue Lion supercomputer at LRZ

HPE will build an Nvidia-powered supercomputer at the Leibniz Supercomputing Center (LRZ) in Germany. Dubbed Blue Lion, the system will employ 100 percent direct liquid cooling. The water-cooling solution will allow waste heat from the supercomputer to be reused for heating local buildings.“Pr...

December 19, 2024

Germany / Deutschland

XeedQ installs ita Baby Diamond computer at Goethe University

Quantum computing company XeedQ has installed its so-called Baby Diamond quantum computer at Goethe University in Germany. The five-qubit machine is an XQ1 system from XeedQ’s XQ series. On its website, XeedQ describes the XQ1 as “the first multi-qubit mobile quantum processor that is room-tem...

November 12, 2024

Germany / Deutschland

ParTec partners with HDRZ research lab for petaflops AI supercomputer

German modular supercomputing company ParTec has partnered with the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HDRZ) research lab to jointly develop and operate an AI supercomputer. No information has been provided about the system’s hardware but in a statement, the two companies said it will be on...

October 30, 2024

Germany / Deutschland

DISA sets up JOE cloud in Germany

The US Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is setting up a Joint Operational Edge (JOE) cloud in Germany in an attempt to expand DISA cloud offerings outside of the US. According to DISA, JOE is an "interconnected and integrated mesh of large form factor Edge computing platforms, install...

August 23, 2024

Germany / Deutschland

New quantum computing demonstration system commissioned in Germany

A quantum computing demonstration system, the first full-stack, ion-trap-based quantum computer demonstrator made entirely in Germany by NXP Semiconductors and quantum computing startups eleQtron and ParityQC has finally been commissioned. Jan Leisse, co-founder & CEO at eleQtron, said: “W...

July 10, 2024

Germany / Deutschland

Planqc secures €50 million in equity financing

German quantum computing startup Planqc which makes neural atom-based quantum computers, has secured €50 million ($54m) in equity financing in a Series A investment, led by the European Family Office Catron Holding and the DeepTech & Climate Fonds (DTCF).Alexander Glätzle, CEO and co-foun...

July 10, 2024

Germany / Deutschland

IQM Quantum Computers launches first quantum data center in Munich, Germany

IQM Quantum Computers has opened its first quantum data center on the company’s premises in Munich, Germany which currently houses two IQM quantum machines and will eventually have space to host up to 12 quantum computers, with 800kW of power capacity.“Our aim is to solve business challenges b...

June 21, 2024

Germany / Deutschland

BlackRock acquires majority stake in Mainova WebHouse.

German energy firm the Mainova Group this week announced it had sold 50.1 percent of its shares in Mainova WebHouse GmbH to a fund managed by BlackRock's Diversified Infrastructure Team in a deal that would open up new growth potential for data centers in Frankfurt and the Rhine-Main region.“M...

June 11, 2024

Germany / Deutschland

Cerebras Systems and Aleph Alpha team up for sovereign AI solutions

Cerebras Systems and Aleph Alpha have entered an agreement to develop sovereign artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, first focusing on creating generative AI models that are trained to a high degree of accuracy. This will be done alongside BWI GmBH, the German public IT services provider ow...

May 20, 2024

Germany / Deutschland

Tishman enters data center market with plans for Frankfurt facility

US real estate firm Tishman Speyer is entering the data center market with plans for a campus in Frankfurt, Germany and has acquired a 75,000 sqm site in the Osthafen area of Frankfurt am Main in order to develop a data center. The property, located close to a number of Digital Realty faciliti...

May 13, 2024

Germany / Deutschland

Datacenter One opens up new facility in Hamburg

Datacenter One (DC1), the German colocation company acquired by AtlasEdge last year, has opened a new facility in Hamburg called HAM1. This facility is located in Ahrensburg, northeast of Hamburg. Phase one spans 3,500 square meters and it will offer 20MW across 10,000 square meters at full bu...

February 07, 2024

Germany / Deutschland

The University of Stuttgart acquires two supercomputers from HPE

The University of Stuttgart has ordered two supercomputers called Hunter and Herder from HPE for its High Performance Computing Center. These systems will cost €115 million and they are expected to take the HLRS up to exascale level in two stages by 2027. Anna Steiger, Chancellor at the Univer...

December 27, 2023

Germany / Deutschland

Avacon & enviaM partner to develop new facility in Hanover, Germany

Engineering firm Avacon Group and regional energy provider enviaM Group have patnered to develop a data center in the Sehnde-Ost industrial area of Hanover, Germany. This facility will span 2,000 square meters and will potentially house 28,000 servers. The data center is being developed by a j...

December 26, 2023

Germany / Deutschland

Nexspace unveils new data center facility in Heidelberg, Germany

New colocation operator Nexspace recently unveiled its first facility in the Heidelberg Innovation Park (HIP) in Germany this month. The three-story site offers 2MW of IT load across 4,000 square meters, which is reportedly expandable to 8,000 square meters in the future. Germany’s Data C...

November 25, 2023

nexspace: Heidelberg

Germany’s Hauck Aufhäuser Lamp Privatbank to launch new data center fund

Germany’s Hauck Aufhäuser Lamp Privatbank announced that its real estate investment management unit is launching a €300 million fund for institutional investors, targeting data centers in major German cities. This is the company’s first-ever data center-focused fund. Patrick Brinker, head of ...

November 24, 2023

Germany / Deutschland

Hausbank München to relocate German data centers to Kyndryl premises

IT services firm Kyndryl announced this week that it will be helping German cooperative bank Hausbank München to relocate two of its data centers from on-premise facilities to Kyndryl’s own facilities in Frankfurt. Kyndryl will rebuild the dedicated server infrastructure, establish a moderniz...

November 10, 2023

Germany / Deutschland

Deutsche Telekom’s subsidiary signs solar energy in Germany

Power and Air Condition Solution Management GmbH (PASM), a wholly owned subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, has signed a long-term PPA with energy group EnBW. Following this 15-year agreement, PASM will offtake 100MW from the 960MW He Dreiht offshore wind farm in the North Sea. Construction of the...

November 08, 2023

Germany / Deutschland

Goodman says it has capacity for 3.7GW of data centers

Real estate group Goodman has over 3GW of potential data center capacity in its pipeline, according to a Q1 2024 operational update published yesterday. The company notes that this is an opportunity worth tens of billions of dollars as it outlines its ambitions for the data center space. The ...

November 07, 2023

Germany / Deutschland

Prea obtains authorization for 100MW Berlin data center

The construction of a 100MW data center in Berlin, Germany, has received planning approval. This week, the German consulting and services firm Prea announced that it has received approval to construct a new data center in Berlin in collaboration with the Dutch developer Van Caem.Four four-stor...

September 20, 2023

Berlin

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