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Schwarz Digits Datacenter Lübbenau

Schwarz Digits Datacenter Lübbenau

Construction
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: Germany

13-hectare brownfield (former 1.3GW Lübbenau coal plant, shut 1996), Lübbenau/Spreewald, Brandenburg. Two phases, up to 100,000 GPUs; STACKIT operates; waste heat to district heating. Groundbreaking Nov 17 2025; Phase 1 (three modules) targeted end-2027.

Capacity
200 MW basis: unspecified
GPUs (est.)
100,000
Capex
$11.0B
Announced
Nov 17, 2025
Target operational

Delivery health score

59 /100
59/100

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

Schedule

60 /100
60/100

Regulatory

70 /100
70/100

Infrastructure

70 /100
70/100

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 Schwarz Digits Datacenter Lübbenau No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Schwarz Digits Datacenter Lübbenau No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory baseline 70 Schwarz Digits Datacenter Lübbenau No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 Schwarz Digits Datacenter Lübbenau No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Groundbreaking Milestone "Groundbreaking" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2025-11-17).
Schedule staleness decay -25 Schwarz Digits Datacenter Lübbenau Newest schedule evidence is 2025-11-17 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).

Milestones

  1. Groundbreaking

    Achieved

    Groundbreaking · Actual:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
Schwarz Digits
Developer
STACKIT
Operator
Max Bögl
General Contractor

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. Wirtschaftsförderung Brandenburg (WFBB) · backs: status

    https://www.wfbb.de/aktuelles/newsletter/ansiedlungserfolg-schwarz-gruppe-investiert-11-milliarden-euro

  2. Firmengruppe Max Bögl · backs: actual date

    https://max-boegl.de/news/groesster-einzelauftrag-der-firmengeschichte-max-boegl-realisiert-data-center-fuer-schwarz-digits

  3. Schwarz Digits · Nov 17, 2025 · backs: announced date, capacity mw, capex usd, gpu count estimated

    https://schwarz-digits.de/presse/archiv/2025/spatenstich-in-luebbenau-schwarz-digits-investiert-11-milliarden-euro-in-europas-digitale-souveraenitaet

Signals

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

  1. · Data Center Dynamics · relevance 0.90

  2. · Schwarz Digits · relevance 0.90

  3. Wirtschaftsförderung Brandenburg (WFBB) · relevance 0.10

  4. Firmengruppe Max Bögl · relevance 0.70