Investment will expand Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s footprint in Germany and enable more public and private sector organizations to take advantage of Oracle’s AI and cloud services
Oracle plans to invest U.S. $2 billion over the next five years to meet the growing demand for its AI and cloud infrastructure in Germany. The investment will expand Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s (OCI) footprint in Germany and will include a significant expansion of AI infrastructure capacity in the Oracle Cloud Frankfurt Region. This will enable even more public and private organizations in Germany to take advantage of Oracle’s industry-leading AI and cloud computing services, including the latest sovereign AI and multicloud capabilities.
“Oracle’s strategic investment underscores that Germany is an attractive location for digital innovations and investments. The growing demand for cloud solutions shows that digital transformation in our country is progressing well. We are pleased about increasing investments, both from Germany and internationally, and expressly welcome this investment. It strengthens our digital infrastructure and enables companies and public authorities to benefit from state-of-the-art AI and cloud technologies. We want to continue on this path together with the private sector and further expand Germany’s role as a leading digital location in Europe,” said Dr. Karsten Wildberger, Federal Minister for Digital Transformation and Government Modernization.
“With our plans to invest U.S. $2 billion in AI infrastructure and cloud computing over the next five years, we are helping organizations across Germany accelerate their AI and cloud journeys,” said Thorsten Herrmann, senior vice president and Germany country leader, Oracle. “In addition, we’re supporting the federal government’s objective of strengthening Germany as a hub for AI investment and innovation in Europe. With this investment, Oracle is doubling down on its commitment to helping organizations of all sizes and across every industry in Germany innovate with AI to build resilience and unlock new levels of productivity and growth.”
The expansion of OCI in Germany will help public and private sector organizations across key German industries—including its world-renowned manufacturing, automotive, renewable energy, scientific research, and healthcare sectors—migrate any type of workload to the cloud, modernize their applications, and take advantage of the latest AI innovations such as Oracle AI Agents. In addition, it will enable even more members of Germany’s AI startup and investor community to gain access to Oracle’s industry-leading infrastructure for AI training and inferencing, as well as its multicloud capabilities.
The investment will also provide increased cloud computing capacity to meet the growing demand for sovereign cloud and AI services in the German public sector and other strategic industries. Oracle EU Sovereign Cloud, with a cloud region located in Frankfurt, helps customers with data and applications that are sensitive, regulated, or of strategic regional importance, take advantage of the latest AI innovations and move to the cloud. With OCI’s distributed cloud, organizations can deploy 200+ AI and cloud services at the edge, in a customer’s datacenter, across clouds, or in the public cloud.
About Oracle Distributed Cloud
Oracle’s distributed cloud delivers the benefits of cloud with greater control and flexibility. Oracle’s distributed cloud lineup includes:
• Public cloud: Hyperscale public cloud regions serve any size of organization, including those requiring strict EU sovereignty controls. See the full list of regions here.
• Dedicated cloud: Customers can run all OCI cloud services in their own data centers with OCI Dedicated Region, while partners can resell OCI cloud services and customize the experience using Oracle Alloy. Oracle also operates separate U.S., UK, and Australian Government Clouds, and Isolated Cloud Regions for national security purposes. Each of these products provide a full cloud and AI stack that customers can deploy as a Sovereign Cloud.
• Hybrid cloud: OCI delivers key cloud services on-premises via Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer and Compute Cloud@Customer and is already managing deployments in over 60 countries. Additionally, OCI Roving Edge Infrastructure, which consists of multiple configurations of ruggedized and portable high-performance devices, helps customers leverage remote AI inferencing at the edge.
• Multicloud: OCI is physically deployed within all the hyperscale cloud providers, including AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, providing low latency, natively integrated Oracle Database services, including Oracle Database@AWS, Oracle Database@Azure, Oracle Database@Google Cloud; and Oracle HeatWave on AWS and Microsoft Azure. Oracle Interconnect for Microsoft Azure and Oracle Interconnect for Google Cloud allows customers to combine key capabilities from across clouds.
Above, Thorsten Herrmann, senior vice president and Germany country leader, Oracle / image credited to Oracle
