Oracle has lined up a $2 billion investment in the next five years for the expansion of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in Germany, with particular focus on the Frankfurt cloud region. The planned investment is designed to satisfy the rising local demand for the company’s artificial intelligence and cloud services, Oracle said Tuesday.
Public-Private Cloud Migration
According the Oracle, the OCI initiative will help Germany’s public and private sectors, including the automotive, manufacturing, renewable energy and healthcare industries, migrate their workloads to the cloud and modernize their applications. It also expects the expanded OCI to drive more local AI startups and investors to tap its multi-cloud infrastructure for AI training and inferencing.
Through OCI’s European Union Sovereign Cloud, which Oracle established in 2022 with a cloud region in Frankfurt, German customers can use AI innovations to migrate to the cloud their sensitive, regulated or strategic data and applications, the company noted.
Frankfurt as AI Hub
Thorsten Herrmann, Oracle senior vice president and Germany country leader, said the OCI expansion will not only help accelerate German customers’ AI and cloud advancements. He pointed out that the initiative also supports Berlin’s goal of building Germany as a European hub for AI investment and innovation.
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“With this investment, Oracle is doubling down on its commitment to helping organizations of all sizes and across every industry in Germany innovate with AI to build resilience and unlock new levels of productivity and growth,” the executive said.
Demand for Cloud Services
Besides Germany, Oracle also plans to invest $1 billion to expand OCI’s footprint in the Netherlands over the next five years. The investment will focus on building the AI infrastructure capacity of OCI’s Amsterdam region.
Earlier in March, the company also disclosed a $5 billion, five-year expansion plan for its U.K. cloud infrastructure to meet rising British demand for OCI services and support London’s AI goals.