A new data center campus could be coming to the borderlands of West Germany.

Aachener Zeitung reports that an unnamed investor is looking to develop a data center campus in Gangelt, a municipality in the district of Heinsberg, in North Rhine-Westphalia.

The campus would be located on a 20-hectare site on the L47, adjacent to an existing industrial estate on the outskirts of Gangelt.

AZ suggests the site could host up to 13 buildings, each totaling 6,300 sqm (67,813 sq ft); the campus would reportedly also have its own substation.

According to AZ, the investor wants to first clarify any outstanding questions such as the adequate power supply, and present the project in detail to the public in the first quarter of 2025.

Gangelt is located some 75km west of Cologne, on the German border with the Netherlands.

Last month the Gangelt council unanimously approved a 20-hectare special area called "Data Center Industrial Park" west of Gangelt, behind the construction yard and fire department on the L47.

Local Mayor Guido Willems suggested the potential to reuse excess heat from the data center could be beneficial to the town.