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

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

September 29, 2025 Munich-München

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...

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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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Read 500MW Solar Park and AI Campus Planned in Germany
500MW Solar Park and AI Campus Planned in Germany

500MW Solar Park and AI Campus Planned in Germany

August 22, 2025 Germany / Deutschland

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...

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Read E-Werk and Leitwerk Plans Data Center in Lahr, Germany
E-Werk and Leitwerk Plans Data Center in Lahr, Germany

E-Werk and Leitwerk Plans Data Center in Lahr, Germany

August 21, 2025 Germany / Deutschland

Energy firm E-Werk Mittelbaden and IT services provider Leitwerk are investing €16 million ($18.63m) in a new data center within the startkLahr Airport & Business Park in Lahr, close to the French border in western Baden-Württemberg. “Starting signal for our data center in Lahr,” Julian...

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Read Maincubes to Develop First Data Center at Nauen Campus
Maincubes to Develop First Data Center at Nauen Campus

Maincubes to Develop First Data Center at Nauen Campus

August 06, 2025 Germany / Deutschland

Germany data center operator Maincubes is developing the first data center at its Nauen campus outside Berlin which will be the first of a maximum of six data centers constituting the campus, dubbed BER02.The announcement was made after two agreements - the land use and zoning plan, as well as...

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Read AtlasEdge Launches Data Center in Germany
AtlasEdge Launches Data Center in Germany

AtlasEdge Launches Data Center in Germany

July 25, 2025 Germany / Deutschland

European operator AtlasEdge has launched a new data center in Stuttgart, Germany, STR001 in the Böblingen area of the city. The company said the site was 100 percent powered by renewable energy and is fully compliant with the German Energy Efficiency Act (Energieeffizienzgesetz). “We’re proud to...

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Read University of Stuttgart’s Hunter supercomputer now online
University of Stuttgart’s Hunter supercomputer now online

University of Stuttgart’s Hunter supercomputer now online

January 21, 2025 Germany / Deutschland

The University of Stuttgart’s Hunter supercomputer has begun operations in Germany. This is one of two HPE supercomputers ordered by the university to take its High-Performance Computing Center (HLRS) up to exascale level. The second system, named Herder, is due to be installed in 2027. The €15...

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Read DMO launches data center outside Münster, Germany
DMO launches data center outside Münster, Germany

DMO launches data center outside Münster, Germany

January 08, 2025 Germany / Deutschland

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...

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Read HPE to build Blue Lion supercomputer at LRZ
HPE to build Blue Lion supercomputer at LRZ

HPE to build Blue Lion supercomputer at LRZ

December 19, 2024 Germany / Deutschland

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...

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Read XeedQ installs ita Baby Diamond computer at Goethe University
XeedQ installs ita Baby Diamond computer at Goethe University

XeedQ installs ita Baby Diamond computer at Goethe University

November 12, 2024 Germany / Deutschland

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...

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Read ParTec partners with HDRZ research lab for petaflops AI supercomputer
ParTec partners with HDRZ research lab for petaflops AI supercomputer

ParTec partners with HDRZ research lab for petaflops AI supercomputer

October 30, 2024 Germany / Deutschland

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 one...

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Read DISA sets up JOE cloud in Germany
DISA sets up  JOE cloud in Germany

DISA sets up JOE cloud in Germany

August 23, 2024 Germany / Deutschland

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, installed...

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Read New quantum computing demonstration system commissioned in Germany
New quantum computing demonstration system commissioned in Germany

New quantum computing demonstration system commissioned in Germany

July 10, 2024 Germany / Deutschland

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: “We...

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Read Planqc secures €50 million in equity financing
Planqc secures €50 million in equity financing

Planqc secures €50 million in equity financing

July 10, 2024 Germany / Deutschland

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-founder...

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

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

June 21, 2024 Germany / Deutschland

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...

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Read BlackRock acquires majority stake in Mainova WebHouse.
 BlackRock acquires majority stake in  Mainova WebHouse.

BlackRock acquires majority stake in Mainova WebHouse.

June 11, 2024 Germany / Deutschland

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...

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Read Cerebras Systems and Aleph Alpha team up for sovereign AI solutions
Cerebras Systems and Aleph Alpha team up for sovereign AI solutions

Cerebras Systems and Aleph Alpha team up for sovereign AI solutions

May 20, 2024 Germany / Deutschland

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 owned...

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Read Tishman enters data center market with plans for Frankfurt facility
Tishman enters data center market with plans for Frankfurt facility

Tishman enters data center market with plans for Frankfurt facility

May 13, 2024 Germany / Deutschland

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 facilities,...

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Read Datacenter One opens up new facility in Hamburg
Datacenter One opens up new facility in Hamburg

Datacenter One opens up new facility in Hamburg

February 07, 2024 Germany / Deutschland

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 build...

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