id: municipal-meppen
name: "Municipal data center (Meppen)"
status: under-construction
location:
  country: DE
  locality: Meppen
first_seen: "2026-07-14"
last_updated: "2026-07-14"
confidence: low
sources:
  - url: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/construction-begins-on-municipal-data-center-in-meppen-germany/
    title: "Construction begins on municipal data center in Meppen, Germany"
    publisher: Data Center Dynamics
    date: "2026-07-10"
signals:
  - sig-20260710-meppen-municipal-dc-status
notes: >-
  Non-US site (Germany). Construction reported to have begun on a
  municipal data center in Meppen, intended to ensure the municipality's
  compliance with German critical infrastructure law. The operating
  municipality has no canonical-entities id and is not emitted as
  operator — needs an entities entry if it recurs. Source is
  headline-only (single subtitle line); status rests on the title alone,
  hence low confidence. Region (Lower Saxony) not stated by the source,
  so omitted.