Lidl’s owner continues cloud services offensive

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With €2.2 billion in cloud revenue and growth 3 times faster than the rest of the business, Schwarz Group continues a technological shift. Between investments in its own data centres, buyouts in sovereign AI and commercial expansion, Europe’s largest retailer by sales wants to build an alternative to US cloud providers.

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The German group Schwarz (2025 turnover: €185.6 billion via 14,500 stores, up by 5.8%) continues a shift towards cloud services, a strategy launched as early as 2022. Facing an offensive from Amazon, Google and Microsoft, on August 27, 2026, the Schwarz Digits business unit announced a €5.6 billion investment in north-eastern Germany (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania) to build a new data centre by 2033. Another data centre (investment: €11 billion in eastern Germany) is currently under constructio

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