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# Google files permits for long-dormant Austrian data centre site
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2025-08-20-google-austria-data-centre-planning/
- Published: 2025-08-20T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-16T12:00:50.000Z
- Description: Google filed planning and building permit applications for its long-dormant Kronstorf, Austria data centre site, the local mayor confirmed, seventeen years after the company bought the roughly 50 hectare plot.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Compute and infrastructure, #news, #reported, #editor-read

Reported Editor-read [Data Center Dynamics, 20 August 2025](https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/google-finally-ramps-up-plans-for-austrian-data-center-17-years-after-buying-land/?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** It does not establish that a building permit has been granted or that construction has started.

**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](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/).

**How this item was made.** Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above; read and approved by the editor on 2026-10-16\. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)