Germany's data centres draw 9 TWh of electricity a year, which places it 4th of the 33 countries this atlas carries a figure for.
That is 1.8% of everything the country generates — above the 1.2% median across those countries.
Set against 2.7 GW of installed capacity, that implies a 38% load factor.
2 metros are tracked here, totalling 1,372 MW, of which Frankfurt alone is 1,222 MW — 89% of the national total.
150 MW of that is not yet operating: it is under construction or still an announcement.
Its strongest showing anywhere in the atlas is Power & Grid on the physical basis, at #4 of 77.
It does not register at all on Memory & Storage.
4 suppliers are domiciled here, booking roughly $49bn between them; the largest is Siemens Energy.
Its single strongest grip on the buildout is Turbines & prime movers, where firms domiciled here hold 16% of global supply in a sub-layer weighted 0.95 for how hard it is to substitute.
About $15bn of AI infrastructure investment has been announced for Germany, though announced is not built — that figure is graded C.
National context
Grid friction
North–south transfer constraints shape where large loads can site.
Where Germany ranks
The same tables read three ways. A country can lead one basis and be invisible on another, and that gap is the whole point of the atlas.
| Tier | Physicalassets here | Ownershiprevenue booked | Controlcould stop you |
|---|---|---|---|
| Silicon | #6of 14 | #5of 9 | #8of 10 |
| Memory & Storage | — | — | — |
| Networking | #8of 9 | — | — |
| Systems & Facility | #7of 54 | — | — |
| Power & Grid | #4of 77 | #7of 17 | #6of 12 |
Data centre metros (2)
| Frankfurt — Operating1,222.5 MW — the largest continental European market, and the tightest in FLAP-D at 3.1% colocation vacancy. 311 MW in development and 687 MW planned, but 24-month lead times pace delivery. | 1,222 MW A |
| Berlin — Under construction | 150 MW C |
Supply positions
Share of each global sub-layer held by firms domiciled here, and how hard that sub-layer would be to substitute. Those two multiplied are what the control basis ranks on.
Silicon
| Sub-layer | Share | Substitutability |
|---|---|---|
| Wafers & materials | 10% C | ×0.75 |
Strongest single grip: Wafers & materials — 10% × 0.75 substitutability weight.
Power & Grid
| Sub-layer | Share | Substitutability |
|---|---|---|
| Turbines & prime movers | 16% B | ×0.95 |
| Transformers & switchgear | 11% C | ×0.80 |
| On-site power & backup | 7% C | ×0.45 |
Strongest single grip: Turbines & prime movers — 16% × 0.95 substitutability weight.
Suppliers domiciled here (4)
| Siemens Energy — Turbines, grid technologyPower & GridRecord order backlog; gas turbine unit sales roughly doubled 2024→2025. | $28bn |
| Infineon — Power semiconductorsSiliconPower delivery into the rack rather than compute. | $16bn |
| Carl Zeiss SMT — EUV opticsSiliconSole supplier of EUV optics to ASML — a chokepoint inside a chokepoint. | $3bn |
| Siltronic — Silicon wafersSilicon | $2bn |
Revenue is the group or segment figure closest to each tier's perimeter. Segment boundaries differ between issuers, so treat the split as indicative.