Sep 19, 2025 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji
Data4 has broken ground on its new data center campus on the site of a former military base in Hanau, Germany. The company plans to develop a 180MW campus at the site of the former Großauheim military base in Hanau, and held a groundbreaking ceremony on Monday. Data4 says the campus will create several hundred jobs. It will invest up to €2 billion ($2.37bn) in the facility.
“The campus in Hanau, with its 180MW power capacity, is an important building block for the digital transformation of both the region and Germany as a whole,” said Hesse's Minister for Digital Affairs, Prof. Dr. Kristina Sinemus. “Germany and Europe need to actively promote the further development of artificial intelligence. This can only be achieved if the necessary digital infrastructure is available to a sufficient extent – for example, through powerful data centers such as those being built here.”
“Germany is one of Europe's leading countries when it comes to digital infrastructure, making it a strategically important market for us,” said Olivier Micheli, president and CEO of Data4. “We want to develop the new campus in Hanau into one of the most powerful, sustainable, and innovative data center locations in Europe, and thus contribute to the digital future of the continent. This is just the beginning for us: we plan to further expand our presence in Germany to be the European datacenter champion, and open additional locations in the coming years.”
