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).
Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: scheduled
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.
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Contribution
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Cites
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Narrative
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| 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). |
Commissioning · Actual:
No active constraint observations recorded against this project.
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.
GARBE.DC · backs: actual date, status
https://www.garbedc.com/news/from-brownfield-to-cloud-developing-google-first-owned-data-center-in-germany/
Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.
· Germany Trade & Invest · relevance 0.90
GARBE.DC · relevance 0.90