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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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