🇩🇪 Germany: AI money in and out
Germany sent $1.1B and received $13.5B in AI deals since Nov 2024. Main players: SAP, Germany, Helsing, Deutsche Telekom, FläktGroup. Full deal list. Updated Nov 9, 2026.
Companies
SAP
Germany
Helsing
Deutsche Telekom
FläktGroup
Prior LabsFlows with other countries
- 🇺🇸 United States → 🇩🇪 Germany$11.8B
- 🇰🇷 South Korea → 🇩🇪 Germany$1.7B
- 🇩🇪 Germany → 🇺🇸 United States$1.1B
Deals involving Germany
At the Invest in Germany Summit Amazon announced over €16B in Germany for 2027, €4.8B of it for the AWS Frankfurt region.
German defence-AI firm Helsing closed a $1.8B Series E at an $18B valuation, the largest round ever raised by a German company.
SAP is acquiring Prior Labs (tabular foundation models) and Dremio, committing over €1B over four years to build a European frontier AI lab; price undisclosed.
Google pledged €5.5B in Germany through 2029: a new Dietzenbach data centre near Frankfurt, Hanau expansion and offices, with no state subsidy.
Deutsche Telekom and Nvidia are building an industrial cloud in Munich with up to 10,000 Blackwell GPUs (DGX B200 and RTX PRO), +50% of German AI compute.
SAP and OpenAI announced 'OpenAI for Germany' for the German public sector on SAP's Azure-based Delos Cloud, launching 2026; SAP is expanding it to 4,000 GPUs.
Samsung bought Germany's FläktGroup, a data-center air and liquid cooling specialist, from Triton — its biggest deal since 2017.