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Google files permits for long-dormant Austrian data centre site

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.

Reported Editor-read Data Center Dynamics, 20 August 2025

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.

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