German discount supermarket chain data centers?
Why not?
Germany’s richest man takes on Big Tech – Supermarket billionaire Dieter Schwarz is investing billions in his cloud company, Schwarz Digits, to rival Google, Microsoft and Amazon.
When Bernd Wagner walks through his new company’s headquarters, he can barely contain his enthusiasm. He starts rattling off figures like “seven times as much steel as was used to build the Eiffel Tower” or “cables stretching all the way to Naples…”
Good luck with that.
German start-up plans 30-megawatt AI data centre in boost to sovereign control – German start-up Polarise plans to build a new 30-megawatt artificial intelligence data centre that would double Germany’s domestically-run computing capacity as European nations push to gain more control over critical tech infrastructure.
The facility, set to come online in the Bavarian town of Amberg in mid-2027, could eventually expand to 120 MW, the company told Reuters.
Normally.
Except when they invest here in Germany.
Germany news: Google plans data center in Hesse – Tech giant Google intends to build a data center just south of Germany’s finance capital Frankfurt am Main. This project is part of Google’s plans to invest €5.5 billion ($6.4 billion) in Germany.
Observing Hermann 