Step 4 · Sell
See what it sells for
Price, fill and contract terms, as scenarios.
Markets and operators: who is building where
The pipeline, the grid, the power, the latency and the rules of a market, and the operators building in it. Counts and dated figures, from the tracker and the official sources.
Data centres in Germany
At a glance: Germany
- Pipeline projects
- 58
- 35 permitted or being built
- Checked 18 Oct 2026
- New grid connections
- Rationed
- Reifegradverfahren, in force since 1 Apr 2026. Nationwide, transmission
- Checked 23 Oct 2026
- Wholesale power price
- 90€/MWh
- Day-ahead, 2025 mean, Germany
- Calendar year 2025
- Grid carbon intensity
- 330g CO₂/kWh
- Yearly average, Germany
- Latest full year
- Next national rule date
- 1 Jan 2027
- Germany’s EnEfG 100% renewable-electricity requirement takes effect
- Applies in Germany
- Latency to nearest major hub
- 3.8 ms
- Round trip, Frankfurt to Amsterdam
- Mapped fibre route, minimum
On 18 October 2026 the pipeline tracker lists 58 data-centre projects in Germany, and 35 of them are permitted or being built.
Data centres in Germany in October 2026
The tracker follows 58 data centre projects of 1 MW or more in Germany, 35 of them permitted or being built. 38 developers are behind them, led by NTT Global Data Centers (5) and Microsoft (4).
Projects by stage
What the capacity figures measure
Each capacity is on its own stated basis; never added.
Who is building in Germany
And 28 other developers with up to 2 projects each. A joint venture counts once per partner. All operators and developers.
Where the data centres are in Germany
What changed
15 milestones in the last 90 days; the newest is from Oct 2026.
Power and grid in Germany
Rationed
New grid connections are rationed (nationwide, transmission, since 1 Apr 2026). Checked 23 Oct 2026. Every country’s grid connections.
Over a year, country level
- Grid carbon, latest full-year average
- 330g CO₂/kWh
- 26th cleanest of 30 countries; 59% renewable or nuclear
- Business electricity price, latest full year
- 216€/MWh
- 23rd cheapest of 26; wholesale is 46% of it
- Wholesale power, 2025 average
- 90€/MWh
- 13th cheapest of 30
Climate at Frankfurt
- Hours a year above 27 °C dry-bulb
- 282h
- mean of 2016 to 2025
- Hours a year above 32 °C dry-bulb
- 51h
- worst year 95 h
- Hours a year above 20 °C wet-bulb
- 100h
- limit for evaporative cooling
Hourly reanalysis at the city’s grid cell, 2016 to 2025.
Annual averages are national, for the latest full year.
Fibre latency from Frankfurt
| To | Round trip, minimum | Path length | Path |
|---|---|---|---|
| Munich | 3.3 ms | 341 km | Mapped fibre route |
| Zurich | 3.4 ms | 349 km | Mapped fibre route |
| Brussels | 3.5 ms | 357 km | Mapped fibre route |
| Amsterdam | 3.8 ms | 392 km | Mapped fibre route |
| Paris | 5.9 ms | 599 km | Mapped fibre route |
| London | 7.0 ms | 712 km | Mapped fibre route |
| Dublin | 12 ms | 1,221 km | Mapped fibre route |
Floors for light in fibre, city centre to city centre; operator fibre adds to this.
Rules and dates
| Where | Rule | Status |
|---|---|---|
| EU | Reporting duty from 500 kW installed IT power, 7 items and 24 indicators, next report 15 May 2027 | In force |
| EU | Waste-heat use above 1 MW total rated energy input, unless a cost-benefit assessment shows it is not feasible | In force |
| EU | Common rating scheme adopted 21 Sep 2026; in Parliament and Council scrutiny, extended 6 Oct | Adopted, not in force |
| Germany | Applies from 300 kW non-redundant nominal connected load; 100% renewable electricity from 1 Jan 2027 | In force |
| Germany | Sites running before 1 Jul 2026: PUE 1.5 or lower from 1 Jul 2027 and 1.3 from 1 Jul 2030 | In force |
| Germany | Sites starting operation from 1 Jul 2026: PUE 1.2 or lower and a reused-energy share of at least 10%, rising to 15% and 20% for sites starting from 1 Jul 2027 and 1 Jul 2028, within two years of start-up | In force |
| Germany | Bill to relax the PUE limits to 1.6 and 1.4; committee hearing held 5 Oct 2026 | Proposed |
Next dates
- 14 Dec 2026the EU Commission’s minimum performance standards consultation and call for evidence closes
- 1 Jan 2027Germany’s EnEfG 100% renewable-electricity requirement takes effect, unless Drucksache 21/8027 passes first and moves it to 1 January 2030
- 31 Mar 2027Germany’s register report due (every year)
- 15 May 2027EU database and French reports due (every year)
- 1 Jul 2027Germany’s EnEfG reused-energy share for new sites rises to 15% for data centres starting operation from this date
- 1 Jul 2027Germany’s EnEfG PUE ≤1.5 deadline for sites that started operating before 1 July 2026, unless Drucksache 21/8027 passes first
Formal refusals and bans since 2025
- 1 Jul 2026Eisenach, Thuringia Council granted a residents' petition; the draft zoning plan for a large data-centre site was withdrawn. Stopped for now; not a final rejection
1 decision on a single site since 2025, not listed here.
Decisions from 1 Jan 2025; statuses checked 21 Oct 2026. A market with none recorded is not a low risk market.
Projects of 1 MW or more, announced to under construction, not yet fully operating; a metro includes its region. Capacities are never added, and no project is listed. Grid: new-connection status from the grid connection tracker. Over a year: national averages, latest full year. Latency: light in fibre over the mapped land route, else the straight line. Sources, 22 official bodies, checked 23 October 2026: 50Hertz, Amprion, Bundesnetzagentur, City of Frankfurt am Main, Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5), EUR-Lex (Official Journal of the EU), German Federal Ministry for Digital Affairs, Hessian administrative courts, Hessian Ministry for Digital Affairs, MITNETZ STROM, Netztransparenz (German TSOs), NRM Netzdienste Rhein-Main, Regierungspräsidium Darmstadt, Stadt Butzbach, Stadt Eisenach, Stadt Hattersheim am Main, Stadt Hofheim am Taunus, Stadt Karben, Stadt Offenbach am Main, Stromnetz Berlin, TenneT, TransnetBW.