Lusatia is already attracting extensive investment owing to its excellent logistical location within Europe, its high potential of qualified jobs, its excellent infrastructure for the settlement of big companies, intensive networking with research, science and educational institutions as well as its extremely attractive living environment (Lusatian Lakeland, Berlin, Dresden). Bosch is investing EUR 1 billion in a chip plant for the development and production of chips for increasing digitization in the automotive industry and other fields of application. Daimler too is investing EUR 1 billion in a battery plant in Kamenz. DEKRA has acquired the EuroSpeedway Lausitz race track to become Europe’s testing and development center for automated and connected driving. BASF will likewise soon be investing in Lusatia, implementing investments in the field of battery component production at the Schwarzheide industrial site. At the Schwarze Pumpe industrial site, LEAG is constructing Europe’s largest energy storage system with 52 megawatt capacity.