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Schwarz Group's STACKIT asks Berlin to back Lübbenau AI Gigafactory bid

Schwarz Group's cloud unit STACKIT formally asked the German federal government to back its Lübbenau site, a 200 megawatt, 100,000 chip campus, as an EU AI Gigafactory under the bloc's InvestAI drive.

Reported Editor-read Bluefield Research, "Schwarz AI Gigafactory Pushes German Sovereignty, Tests Water Limits", 19 August 2025

What it does not test. This does not establish that Germany has nominated the site or that the EU has selected it for Gigafactory funding.

How this item counts. This item is dated before the index starts on 1 January 2026, so it does not count in the European Sovereignty Index.

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