Germany's AI Bottleneck May Be Electricity: GreenTech as Industrial Infrastructure

In this episode, Joe covers the GreenTech Monitor 2026's full data set; the AI-energy nexus and why data centers are now central to industrial competitiveness; Germany's hidden cluster geography (Aachen, Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, Dresden, Karlsruhe); the funding gap by round stage; the €500 billion infrastructure fund and €10 billion Deutschlandfonds; and what founders, investors, corporates, and policymakers should do next.

Featuring data from the Startup-Verband (Verena Pausder, Nils Aldag of Sunfire, Dr. Alexander Hirschfeld), Dealroom, BCG, Fraunhofer IZM, and the Deutscher Startup Monitor 2025.

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