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# Investigation finds US firms build most of Germany's new data centre capacity
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2026-08-28-germany-data-centre-us-ownership-investigation/
- Published: 2026-08-28T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-24T08:35:09.000Z
- Description: NDR and Süddeutsche Zeitung found that of 99 German data centres in planning or construction, 36 are built by non-EU firms, two thirds American, including 14 of the largest 100+ megawatt projects; Amazon, Google, Microsoft and EdgeConnex named.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Compute and infrastructure, #news, #reported, #editor-read

Reported Editor-read [it-daily.net, 28 August 2026](https://www.it-daily.net/it-management/data-center/deutschlands-rechenzentren-boom?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** Does not measure EU-wide ownership shares or how sovereignty changes once these facilities are operating.

**How this item counts.** No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0\. Investigative finding on US-built DCs, no EU-wide share or operational change shown. [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 2026-09-24\. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)