Google will invest €5.5 billion in Germany from 2026 to 2029, marking its largest commitment in the country to date.

The plan includes building a new state-of-the-art data centre in Dietzenbach near Frankfurt, expanding its existing Hanau data centre and enlarging office spaces in Berlin, Frankfurt and Munich.

The Dietzenbach data centre will feature Google’s first heat recovery project in Germany, supplying excess heat to more than 2,000 local households via the district heating network.

Google Cloud’s German regions will offer advanced AI services, including Vertex AI with Gemini models, and continue to deliver sovereign cloud services to comply with local and European data regulations.

Companies like Microsoft and Google are expanding their compute capabilities across Europe to deploy more AI services and to ensure data sovereignty.  

The investment is positioned as a response to Europe’s push for digital sovereignty, with Google emphasising customers are not locked into a single vendor.

Earlier this month, Nvidia and Deutsche Telekom unveiled plans for a €1 billion data centre project in Munich to strengthen the country’s digital sovereignty.

In September, Google committed £5 billion to local operations across the UK, focusing on AI research for the science and healthcare sectors