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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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December 27, 2023 Germany / Deutschland
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...
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December 26, 2023 Germany / Deutschland
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...
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November 25, 2023 nexspace: Heidelberg
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 Center...
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November 24, 2023 Germany / Deutschland
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 real...
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November 10, 2023 Germany / Deutschland
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 modernized...
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November 08, 2023 Germany / Deutschland
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...
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November 07, 2023 Germany / Deutschland
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...
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September 20, 2023 Berlin
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-story...
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September 11, 2023 CyrusOne Frankfurt FRA7
CyrusOne is set to develop another data center in Frankfurt, Germany. Named FRA7, this is the company’s seventh data center campus in Frankfurt. Construction is set to begin in the third quarter of 2024, with an expected delivery date of the second quarter of 2026. Based on a 63,000 sqm (678,125...
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