Germany Hopes New Data Centre Can Help Bring 'Digital Sovereignty'
The €11 billion facility will house up to 100,000 GPUs to support AI development and aims to strengthen European digital sovereignty, officials said.
- On Monday, Schwarz Group executives broke ground on a roughly 11 billion euro digital hub in Luebbenau, Spreewald region, with Karsten Wildberger, German Minister for Digitalisation, attending.
- With Europe lagging in key tech areas, leaders convened at the tech 'sovereignty' summit in Berlin on Tuesday led by Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron.
- Built on a former power plant, the complex will feature six modules each the size of four football fields at the Spreewald former power plant site, hosting up to 100,000 GPUs as an AI 'giga-factory' aligned with the EU 20 billion euro fund.
- Schwarz Group's Stackit could be an early client, offering European firms data storage free from American cloud providers; three centres are expected operational by the end of 2027 with heat to warm homes from 2028.
- While backers tout digital sovereignty, Rolf Schumann said the centre offers "secure and independent infrastructure" and 'We provide sovereign digital services with European values', but Barbara Engels warned of a "huge ecological footprint" and renewable energy concerns.
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Germany hopes new data centre can help bring 'digital sovereignty'
A new mega data centre is slated to rise in a rural stretch of eastern Germany in what backers hope is a starting point for a European AI sector that can compete with the United States and China.
Schwarz Group announces historic 11 billion euro investment
The Schwarz Group, known for Lidl and Kaufland, has announced a major investment of 11 billion euros in Germany. According to the company, this amount is the largest in the company's history. It is planned that about 2.5 billion euros will be spent on construction, while the rest will be directed to IT infrastructure and about 100 thousand chips for artificial intelligence. The center will be located in Lübben on an area of 13 hectares and wil…
With 100,000 AI chips, the Schwarz Group not only wants to process its own data, but above all to offer cloud services for external customers. For this purpose, the discounter group invests eleven billion euros in Lübbenau, Brandenburg.[more]]>
The Schwarz Group is building a new data center in the middle of the Spreewald. The digital minister is cheering, but the road to digital sovereignty is still a long way away.
It is the largest single investment in the company's history: six modules, one campus and 200 megawatts. The Schwarz Group is building a large plant for AI chips in the Spreewald. It is supposed to be ready in two years' time.
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