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Google Pledges €5.5 Billion to Expand AI Data Centers in Germany

Berlin touts the unsubsidized plan as a jobs catalyst that advances cloud sovereignty by 2029.

What Google’s €5.5 billion plan means for enterprise AI and energy
Marianne Janik, Vice President at Google Cloud for Northern Europe, Philipp Justus, Vice President at Google for Central Europe, and Lars Klingbeil, German Finance Minister and Vice Chancellor, at a Berlin press conference
Googles plans to build a new data centre in Germany and expand its offices
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Overview

  • The package adds a new data center in Dietzenbach near Frankfurt and expands Google’s existing site in Hanau, both in the state of Hesse.
  • Google says the facilities will provide computing power for artificial intelligence and strengthen Google Cloud services, with office expansions planned in Berlin, Frankfurt and Munich.
  • The company estimates about 9,000 jobs a year will be supported, and Chancellor Friedrich Merz welcomed the commitment as a vote of confidence in Germany’s economy.
  • Sustainability measures include purchasing wind and solar power and a heat‑recovery project that will reuse data‑center waste heat, with local partners enabling home heating.
  • Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil confirmed no state subsidies for the investment, and Google highlighted sovereign cloud options to align with European data rules.