Last Factory Closed: Playmobilfabrik Becomes a Data Center
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Where small figurines used to leave the assembly lines, a data center is now to be created: "Playmobil digital" is to enable important infrastructure for the digital future. The figures are now produced exclusively abroad.
Playmobil is in crisis, the only German plant was closed, hundreds of employees lost their jobs. Now the parent company in Dietenhofen wants to build a data center.
Handelsblatt
wiwo.deThe company closed the only German production site in the summer. With its new Playmobil digital division, the company wants to reorganize.
The mother of the well-known toy brand has relocated production abroad. In the future, the German parent plant will offer computing power, which is important for artificial intelligence.
Where Playmobil toys were produced until recently, a high-performance data center is now being built: the Horst Brandstätter Group as its parent company announced that it would build a computing campus on the site of its plant in Dietenhofen in southern Germany. It was designed for an output of 100 megawatts and has potential beyond that.
The site in Dietenhofen was until summer the only German factory where Playmobil had produced toys. It was closed at the end of June.
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