Hyperscale · Eemshaven, Groningen, Netherlands

Google Eemshaven Data Center

Multibillion-euro North Sea port campus powered 100% by Dutch offshore wind and solar

Google Eemshaven Data Center on the mapmap: Natural Earth (public domain)

The story

Located on the windswept northern coast of the Netherlands facing the Wadden Sea, Google Eemshaven represents one of Alphabet's largest single infrastructure investments in Europe. Sited in Groningen to capitalize on transatlantic subsea cable landings and offshore North Sea wind arrays, the €3.8B campus was the first Google data center powered by 100% renewable energy from day one. It draws canal water for its cooling towers, returning it cleaned to regional waterways.

Notable

Total cumulative capital investment exceeds €3.8 billion across multiple phased developments.
Matches 100% of electrical energy demand with PPAs from Dutch offshore wind farms like Krammer.
Cooled using non-potable surface water drawn from the regional industrial canal system.
Anchors Google Cloud's europe-west4 cloud region supporting core YouTube and search infrastructure.

Expansions

2018: €500M expansion adding second major operational wing
2023: Additional €600M investment expanding clean energy matching and compute capacity

Operator	Google
Owner	Alphabet Inc.
Type	Hyperscale
Location	Eemshaven, Groningen, Netherlands
Opened	2016
Status	operating
IT power	180 MW
Total power	230 MW
PUE	1.11 (trailing-12-month)
Site area	440,000 m²
Building area	150,000 m²
Cooling	industrial canal water, free air, evaporative cooling towers
Power	grid source: TenneT Netherlands (direct wind and solar PPA off-take) · renewable pct: 100 % · onsite generation: substation connecting to offshore wind parks · backup: diesel
Certifications	ISO 14001, ISO 50001, OHSAS 18001

See it on the earth

Record confidence: high. Values marked "estimated" are estimates in the source data.

Sources

Google Data Centers: Eemshaven, Netherlands · Google · 2024-01-10
Google blijft honderden miljoenen investeren in datacenter Eemshaven · RTV Noord · 2023-11-15
Google expands Dutch infrastructure footprint across Eemshaven and Agriport · DatacenterDynamics · 2021-06-22

Part of the open famous data centers dataset (CC BY 4.0). Updated 2026-10-15. A correction? da@mustardseedmt.com

Questions people ask

What is Google Eemshaven Data Center famous for?

Multibillion-euro North Sea port campus powered 100% by Dutch offshore wind and solar

Where is Google Eemshaven Data Center?

Google Eemshaven Data Center is in Eemshaven, Groningen, Netherlands (53.436, 6.817). It is operated by Google.

How much power does Google Eemshaven Data Center use?

About 180 MW of IT load and 230 MW in total, according to the sources listed on this page.

What is the PUE of Google Eemshaven Data Center?

1.11, trailing-12-month.