The interesting thing here is that Google Germany's overall HQ is in Hamburg.  Which means that Google Germany believes itself to be more of a media organization than a CSIT-STEM organization, hence basing itself in a media town like Hamburg, instead of a CSIT-STEM town like Dresden, Nuremberg, or Aachen. http://www.eutimes.net/2018/11/google-offered-stasi-hq-for-new-berlin-office/