Data Center
Engrida Hyperscale Data Centre - Philippsburg, Germany
Engrida is a planned 707MW hyperscale data centre in Philippsburg, Baden-Württemberg, developed by the Wirth Group on the site of a former nuclear plant with pre-approved 380kV grid connection.
Engrida is a planned 707MW hyperscale data centre facility being developed by the Wirth Group at the Philippsburg-Huttenheim Industrial Park in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The project has received preliminary approval from Philippsburg's municipal council and has secured a requisite grid connection agreement with grid operator TransnetBW, leveraging the existing 380kV high-voltage infrastructure at the site of the former Philippsburg Nuclear Power Plant. The project is positioned as an integrated energy and data infrastructure platform, combining power grid connectivity with large-scale digital infrastructure.
The Engrida project will encompass not only a former Goodyear tire factory at the Philippsburg-Huttenheim Industrial Park but also infrastructure at the nearby decommissioned nuclear power plant site. This provides Engrida with an exceptionally powerful grid connection – one of the most valuable in Germany's transmission network – reducing the infrastructure investment required and accelerating the path to delivering large-scale compute capacity. The project will also incorporate a district heating system, channelling waste heat from server racks into local community heating networks in line with German sustainability objectives.
Founded in 1997, the Wirth Group is a real estate and renewable energy investment firm that is positioning Engrida as a major European digital sovereignty project. The facility is actively seeking German or European co-investors, with Philippsburg's mayor expressing preference for domestic investors. Once complete, Engrida would represent one of the largest single data centre facilities in Europe by power capacity, potentially serving hyperscale cloud providers seeking to expand European capacity amid growing data sovereignty regulation and AI compute demand.
