When Bernd Wagner walks through his new company's headquarters, he can barely contain his enthusiasm. He starts rattling off figures like "seven times as much steel as was used to build the Eiffel Tower" or "cables stretching all the way to Naples."

Wagner is responsible for cloud business and sales at Schwarz Digits. All that steel and cabling has gone into the new head office, which will officially open on July 21, 2026.

'We are here to say,' says Bernd Wagner, head of sales and cloud business at Schwarz DigitsImage: Nicolas Martin/DW

The campus, designed for 3,500 employees and complete with a daycare center, restaurant and fitness facilities, is reminiscent of the headquarters of Amazon, Apple, or Google.

Perched on a hillside, five multi-story curved glass buildings in a honeycomb arrangement surround a small pond at the center of the so-called "Schwarz Digits Campus," with plenty of greenery and shaded benches. "This is a statement," says Wagner. "We don't have to hide from Google or anyone else."