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Google Hanau Data Center

Hanau / Industriepark Wolfgang, HE, GermanyOperating / Stabilized
Capacity
No public figure
Lead participant
NDC-Garbe
Developer
Last updated
Aug 22, 2026
Most recent public record update

About Google Hanau Data Center

Google opened its Hanau data center in 2023 after a prior 2022 target. The four-story, 10,000-square-metre facility supports the Frankfurt cloud region; Google has not disclosed a site capacity.

Capacity

Operating capacityAn operating IT-capacity figure has not been publicly disclosed.

No additional capacity claims are published.

Development

3 phases · 4 milestones
Hanau build and handoverChanged Or Cancelled

Historical construction phase; actual opening occurred in 2023.

1 building

Hanau operating facilityOperational

Google-owned Cloud data center supporting the Frankfurt cloud region.

1 building

Waste-heat reuse studyPlanned

No delivered heat volume, commissioning date or binding offtake was located.

Aug 31, 2021
NDC-Garbe building handover described
Completed
Dec 31, 2022
Earlier 2022 operating target
Forecast
Oct 6, 2023
Google opens Hanau data center
Completed
Oct 6, 2023
Parties examine waste-heat reuse
Forecast

Infrastructure

Cooling SystemOperational

Air/free cooling and air-cooled chillers; no site water-use metric located.

Renewable Energy SupplyReported Context

140 MW portfolio

Germany-wide ENGIE wind/solar portfolio; not Hanau site capacity or utility service.

Heat ReusePotential Or Planned

Google, EnBW, Evonik and Umicore were examining reuse options; no operating system asserted.

Project map

0 of 1 project point mapped
Infrastructure facts
3
Mapped records
1
Capacity figures
1

No map point available

Power & interconnection: 1Cooling & water: 2

Facts & sources

Published claims and their source links.

9 facts
Operational Status
Operating
Actual
Opening Year
2023
Actual
Ownership Distinction
First Google owned Cloud data center in Germany
Actual
Building Stories
4 stories
Actual
Building Area
10,000 sqm
Actual
Actual Opening
2023-10-06
Actual
Cloud Region Support
Frankfurt cloud region
Actual
Cooling Design
Air/free cooling with air cooled chillers
Design
Waste Heat Reuse
Google, EnBW, Evonik and Umicore examining options
Actual