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News
22. December 2025 / 22. December 2025 by Flora of European Cloud | 1 Comment on IONOS opened new cloud machine room in Frankfurt
IONOS has opened a new data centre in eastern Frankfurt with N+1 power and cooling systems, 100% renewable electricity and a PUE of 1.23.
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European Champions
9. December 2025 / 15. December 2025 by Flora of European Cloud | Leave a Comment
Black Forest Labs, a Freiburg‑based AI start‑up, closed a $300 million financing round. The round values the company at roughly $4 billion, making it Germany’s most valuable AI firm. Funding is led by Salesforce Ventures and AMP, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst and other top investors.
2. December 2025 / 1. December 2025 by Flora of European Cloud | Leave a Comment
GrapheneOS announced it is removing all active servers from France and ending its relationship with OVHcloud. The move is driven by concerns over French legislation that could force backdoors in encryption and the broader “chat control” debate. OVHcloud’s boss Octave Klaba responded, but the dispute remains unresolved.
1. December 2025 / 1. December 2025 by Flora of European Cloud | Leave a Comment
OVHcloud CEO Octave Klaba warns that many cloud services could see price increases of 5‑10 % by mid‑2026, possibly sooner.
17. November 2025 / 15. December 2025 by Flora of European Cloud | 1 Comment on Lidl parent company: Schwarz Group builds data center for eleven billion euros
Lidl parent Schwarz Group, through its cloud arm STACKIT, is planning a €11‑€13 billion AI‑focused data‑center campus in Lübbenau, Brandenburg. The site will span 13 hectares, host up to 200 MW of power capacity and house up to 100 000 AI chips, making it one of Europe’s largest “AI gigafactories”.
How To
29. October 2025 / 29. October 2025 by Georg Kalus | Leave a Comment
This guide describes how to work with the STACKIT Secrets Manager in Terraform. The STACKIT Secrets Manager is based on HashiCorp Vault.
27. October 2025 / 27. October 2025 by Georg Kalus | Leave a Comment
This How-To describes how to get a server boot image ID. The image ID is needed when provisioning a server in the STACKIT cloud.
24. October 2025 / 1. December 2025 by Flora of European Cloud | Leave a Comment
92 % of German executives plan to raise AI budget in 2026, many by more than 25 %. Initiatives such as GAIA‑X, Catena‑X and more aim to turn Germany into an “AI‑nation”.
23. October 2025 / 1. December 2025 by Flora of European Cloud | Leave a Comment
The Technical University of Munich (TUM) has established the Munich Advanced Technology Center for High-Tech Chips (MACHT-AI) with funding from the Bavarian state government.
News European Champions
21. October 2025 / 27. October 2025 by Flora of European Cloud | Leave a Comment
A Paderborn start-up, One Ware, promises AI models in seconds instead of months, requiring only a few small chips instead of entire data centers.
17. October 2025 / 1. December 2025 by Flora of European Cloud | Leave a Comment
Central and Eastern Europe remain underserved by data centres despite favourable conditions.
Fundamentals
15. October 2025 / 15. October 2025 by Georg Kalus | Leave a Comment
STACKIT AI Model Serving is the STACKIT service for cloud-hosted LLMs. It is an easy-to-use service that exposes Large Language Models through OpenAI API compatible endpoints.
