Discount Retail Chain Lidl Germany's owner the Schwarz Group is backing its digital ambitions with a major investment in Lübbenau (Germany), next to the Kaufland logistics center, a data center for Schwarz Digits, STACKIT & Co. is being built, which is set to be one of the largest in Germany. Following the deal between Lidl's parent company in Germany and Google Cloud, the necessary capacity is needed. The project is designed for an electrical connection capacity of up to 200 megawatts.
The Schwarz Group, which includes Lidl and Kaufland, wants to build the plant on the old power plant site by the end of 2027, as it said at a press conference in Lübbenau.
Group and customer data from all over Germany will be processed and stored in the data center on 13 hectares. It is about data from delivery and ordering processes, payment processes and customer loyalty programs. These are to be stored in a company's own cloud.
Waste heat to flow into district heating network
The data center with a connected load of 200 megawatts is to consist of six buildings in which the computers will be housed, a five-story administration building and a substation. It would be the fourth such center of the Schwarz Group in Germany, which is to be built in eastern Germany for geostrategic reasons (failure scenarios, hacker attacks, natural disasters), the company announced.
The municipal utilities want to use the waste heat generated by the computing power in the neighboring combined heat and power plant and feed it into the district heating network.
Company representatives did not want to say how much money the Schwarz Group is investing in Lübbenau.
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