Winschoten, Netherlands

The Winschoten data centre is Google's third data centre site in The Netherlands and strengthens the Google Cloud region in the country. It is equipped to support off-site heat recovery and uses advanced air-cooling technology to limit local water usage to domestic use.

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Google Opens Data Center in Winschoten to Help Power the AI Economy in The Netherlands

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Water management in the Netherlands

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Jeroen de Schutter

Former General Director, Agrotheek, Netherlands

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Jeroen de Schutter

Middenmeer, Netherlands

General Director, Agrotheek

Agrotheek is a nonprofit that teaches farmers how to work with innovations to get healthy crops and good income with lower costs and higher yield. Agrotheek’s former general director, Jeroen de Schutter, saw an opportunity in the land outside our Middenmeer, Netherlands, data center. He approached us about cultivating the land to use as a learning field to demonstrate new innovations to farmers.

At the end of that growing season, Agrotheek sold the crops and used the profits to support institutes in the community, like the local football team and choir.

“During the season when crops were growing, people from the Google data center liked what they saw and came once a month to view our fields. If we continue next year, we can grow tulips. It’s a beautiful garden in front of the data center.”

Jeroen de Schutter

General Director, Agrotheek
Marco Ynema

Googler, Site Lead at Eemshaven Data Center

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Marco Ynema

Eemshaven, Netherlands

Googler, Site Lead at Eemshaven Data Center

Marco Ynema, site lead at our Eemshaven data center in the Netherlands, is focused on growth, whether it’s for himself in his career, or in his proficiency as a musician and audio engineer, or in helping others.

Born and raised in the Netherlands, Marco’s background is in computer science and audio engineering. He had ambitions for a career in music. Looking for stability as his family grew, he opted to pursue computer science and IT roles instead.

Marco arrived at Google in 2005, contracting as a data center technician, but he was quickly hired a year later, moving to the U.S. to work with teams on site reliability engineering and software engineering. When he heard Google was building the Eemshaven data center, he shifted back to working within operations in the Netherlands. “The best place to raise my two daughters,” he says.

As a site lead, he's observed Google’s evolution in the community, becoming more involved in outreach, including building school curriculum. Marco was involved in launching an apprenticeship program for local secondary institutions, hosting students at the Eemshaven data center, which led to full-time roles for some.

In addition to seeing Google grow our commitments to the community, he enjoys helping people grow. “What I love most is to work together with my colleagues to build something and grow what we're working on and improve.”

And music still plays a leading role in Marco’s life. He played in multiple bands over the years. Marco even built a recording studio in his backyard, ceaselessly focused on growing his talent.

“As we grow our presence, we see more interactions with the local community because we are part of the community. I also see it as our obligation to actually ensure that we are not only reaping the benefits from being here in this country, but by contributing by increasing infrastructure and creating opportunities and jobs and other things.”

Marco Ynema

Googler, Site Lead at Eemshaven Data Center

Investment to date

€600 million

In December 2023, we announced the start of construction on our new data centre in Winschoten, in the municipality of Oldambt, representing a €600 million investment in tThe Netherlands.
Number of local Dutch partners

160

For the construction of The Winschoten data centre and our other operations across the Netherlands, Google works with nearly 160 Dutch suppliers today.

Erich Wünker, Alderman for Economic Affairs and Land Development & Services for the municipality of Oldambt, and Marco Ynema, Google’s data centre lead in the Netherlands, celebrate the opening of the new Google data centre in Winschoten in 2025.