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Data4 has broken ground on its new data center campus on the site of a former military base in Hanau, Germany.
Brookfield-owned Data4 plans to develop a 180MW campus at the site of the former Großauheim military base in Hanau, and held a groundbreaking ceremony on Monday.
The company purchased the 25-acre site in 2023, and says the campus will create several hundred jobs. It will invest up to €2 billion ($2.37bn) in the facility.
The new campus will run on 100 percent renewable energy, and Data4 plans to construct a combined heat and power plant, along with an electrical substation. The company hopes to use waste heat from the data center to warm homes in the area, while materials from the old barracks will be reint
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