The USA technology company Google continues its investments in Germany. The company will expand its data center in Frankfurt and set up a new data center in the capital, Berlin.
Marc Oman, head of energy and infrastructure for Google data centers, announced that the company will invest 1 billion euros by 2030 in Berlin and Frankfurt data centers and renewable energy.
TARGET 100 PERCENT RENEWABLE ENERGY
Oman noted that Google will purchase more than 140 megawatts of electricity from the German subsidiaries of French energy company Engie for its data centers in Germany, aiming to use 100 percent renewable energy in its data centers by 2030.
US DOMINATION IN EUROPE
EU countries, especially Germany and France, have long been concerned about "data independence" because the important technologies of the future are dominated by American and Chinese suppliers in Europe.
In the developing cloud network that provides storage, software and computing services over the Internet, the dominance of US companies such as Amazon, IBM, Google, and Microsoft in Europe and the high investments of Chinese companies such as Alibaba draws attention.
Google has data centers in Finland, the Netherlands, Denmark, Ireland and Belgium.
The USA technology company announced last year that it would invest nearly $2 billion in a data center in Poland for cloud services.
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