Cloud services are also increasingly in demand in Germany. Google is therefore investing heavily in expanding the necessary infrastructure in this country. This also has data protection advantages.
In the coming years, Google will invest one billion euros in the construction of two new data centers in Hanau and in the greater Berlin area as well as in the expansion of renewable energy in Germany. The US Internet company announced this on Tuesday in Berlin. The investment plan extends until 2030.
The cloud system in Hanau is only 20 kilometers away from the world’s largest Internet node DE-CIX, said Philipp Justus, Google’s head of Central Europe. The four-story building with a usable area of around 10,000 square meters will be fully operational in the coming year. Google is thus adapting the Frankfurt cloud region to the growing demand for cloud services in Germany. At the same time, Google will set up a new Berlin-Brandenburg cloud region. The exact location of the servers was not disclosed.
The main purpose of the various cloud regions is to bring your own services closer to customers. This significantly reduces data runtimes (latency) compared to a trans-Atlantic data connection. There are also legal and regulatory reasons for customers to work better on cloud computers that are located in Germany instead of using systems in the USA.
A significant part of the Google investment goes into the production of renewable energy in Germany, because the data centers are also huge consumers of electricity. Since 2017, Google has been offsetting its worldwide annual electricity consumption by purchasing green electricity. Google has now announced that the local energy partner Engie Deutschland from Cologne will feed more than 140 megawatts (MW) of solar and wind energy into the German grid in the coming years. This included a new 39 MW photovoltaic system and the maintenance of 22 wind farms. This is to ensure that “from 2022, around 80 percent of the energy supplied to the Google infrastructure will come from CO2-free sources every hour”.
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