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Google Hanau Data Center

Google Hanau Data Center

Operating
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: Germany

Hanau (Rhine-Main, ~20km from DE-CIX Frankfurt) — Google's first German-owned DC: four-story brownfield conversion (former civil-defense storage), opened Oct 2023; part of Alphabet's €1B+ Germany program to 2030; developed/delivered by NDC-GARBE (now GARBE.DC).

Capacity
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

57.5 /100
57.5/100

Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: scheduled

Schedule

60 /100
60/100

Regulatory

70 /100
70/100

Infrastructure

60 /100
60/100

Capital

40 /100
40/100

Why this score — factor breakdown

Each factor below contributed to the current score. Contributions are rubric weights from methodology prs-v0.1; every factor cites the record it is derived from.

Dimension
Factor
Contribution
Cites
Narrative
Capital baseline 40 Google Hanau Data Center No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Google Hanau Data Center No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Infrastructure interconnection progress +15 Commissioning Power/interconnection milestone "Commissioning" achieved on 2023-10-06 — largest single health event (§B.2.3).
Infrastructure staleness decay -25 Google Hanau Data Center Newest infrastructure evidence is 2023-10-06 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Regulatory baseline 70 Google Hanau Data Center No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 Google Hanau Data Center No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Commissioning Milestone "Commissioning" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2023-10-06).
Schedule staleness decay -25 Google Hanau Data Center Newest schedule evidence is 2023-10-06 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).

Milestones

  1. Commissioning

    Achieved

    Commissioning · Actual:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
Google
Owner
GARBE.DC
Developer

Sources & citations

Every substantive field on this record is backed by a canonical claim from a cited source document, graded on the E1 (strongest) – E5 (weakest) evidence ladder.

  1. GARBE.DC · backs: actual date, status

    https://www.garbedc.com/news/from-brownfield-to-cloud-developing-google-first-owned-data-center-in-germany/

Signals

Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.

  1. · Germany Trade & Invest · relevance 0.90

  2. GARBE.DC · relevance 0.90