This Week: Germany's Hyper Scaler Infrastructure Slow Dance

The Week with Roger · Jul 6, 2026 · 11m

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner examine insights from the Handelsblatt data center conference in Düsseldorf, covering the rapid expansion of data centers in Germany vs. the U.S., infrastructure and energy challenges ahead, and the implications for telecom networks.

00:00 Episode intro

00:25 Handelsblatt conference overview

01:31 State of the German data center buildout

02:44 State of the US buildout

03:23 Shortages are on the horizon

05:16 Electricity demands

06:06 Repurposing German data center heat

07:38 Cooling challenges

08:39 Why expansion must continue despite challenges

10:03 How…