British Tech Giant Brings €4bn Data Centre to Berlin-Brandenburg

London-based Virtus Data Centres is making a significant bet on Berlin's tech future with a groundbreaking ceremony for their first German data centre project. According to information from Tagesspiegel the company is investing nearly €4 billion in two facilities across the Berlin-Brandenburg region, signaling strong confidence in Germany's digital transformation potential.

Located in Tempelhof's Marienpark business district, the new campus will deliver 57.6MW of IT capacity across four buildings. This positions it among Berlin's largest data centres, designed to meet growing demand from cloud computing, video streaming, and artificial intelligence applications.

The Marienpark location represents more than just another data centre. Built on a former gasworks site, it's already home to NTT's 24MW facility, creating a emerging tech cluster. Virtus will join this ecosystem, supporting AI development and critical infrastructure innovation.

Sustainability drives the project's design. Through a joint venture between Gasag and Investa Real Estate, waste heat from both data centres will warm approximately 9,000 households via a district heating network. The heat distribution infrastructure is already under construction, with competitive pricing that meets current market standards.

Virtus manager Michael Dada sees strong demand drivers ahead. Germany's digitalization gap, combined with growing data sovereignty concerns, creates robust market conditions for local data processing capabilities. The company plans to use exclusively renewable energy, noting that Frankfurt's grid capacity constraints make Berlin an attractive alternative.

The Berlin campus will create nearly 400 direct jobs, with construction beginning in 2026. Alongside the parallel 204MW hyperscale facility in Brandenburg's Wustermark, Virtus is positioning itself to serve enterprise, government, and hyperscale customers across Europe's largest economy.