Morning Edition · Monday, September 7, 2026Published at 2:22 AM EDT · New York

Germany Pushes a Data Center Buildout It Says Will Quadruple AI Capacity by 2030

Chancellor Friedrich Merz says construction is proceeding at a scale Germany has not previously reached, against a national strategy targeting up to 2,000 megawatts of AI and high-performance computing capacity.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Germany is building data centers at a scale the country has not previously reached, according to a post by the AI Post channel. The claim follows a policy program with published targets. Germany's natio…