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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

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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

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  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

  2. GARBE.DC