Amazon will invest 16 billion euros in Germany in 2027, the company said, covering data centres and AI infrastructure, high speed satellite internet through Amazon Leo, logistics and a new Prime Video production slate. Amazon says it has spent about 100 billion euros in Germany since 2010.
Of the total, 4.8 billion euros will go to data centres and AI, expanding the AWS Europe region in Frankfurt, which has operated since 2014 and has three availability zones. AWS previously committed 9.44 billion dollars to the Frankfurt region by 2026, and separately said in 2024 it would invest 7.8 billion euros in its sovereign European cloud in Brandenburg through 2040. The company has not detailed how the remaining 11.2 billion euros of the 2027 pledge splits between Leo, logistics and Prime Video.
“Germany is a hub of innovation and one of the most attractive investment opportunities in Europe,” said David Zapolsky, Amazon’s chief global affairs and legal officer. Federal minister for economic affairs and energy Katherina Reiche called the investment a vote of confidence in Germany and said high performance data centres are the foundation of the digital economy.
The pledge lands as European governments compete for hyperscaler capacity on sovereignty terms, and as grid access, not demand, sets the pace of buildout in markets such as Frankfurt.