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Google cancels planned Mittenwalde data centre near Berlin over power limits

Google scrapped its 2022 plan for a data centre on a 30-hectare site in Mittenwalde near Berlin, citing a review of feasibility, market shifts and power availability unsuited to AI-scale compute.

Reported Editor-read Data Center Dynamics, 16 July 2025

What it does not test. Does not establish that Google is reducing its overall German data centre footprint, since it is expanding elsewhere in the country.

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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