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Digital Realty is significantly expanding its UK footprint with a $2 billion "Mega-Campus" project designed to meet the high-density power demands of AI and hyperscale workloads. The campus is projected to reach a total capacity exceeding 3

Firebird, an AI cloud startup backed by Armenia's government, unveiled a $500 million plan in mid-2025 to build a 100 MW data center campus near Yerevan. The public–private venture is slated to launch operations in 2026 with thousands of NV

Microsoft announced a major investment in Czech Republic (Czechia) cloud infrastructure in May 2024, committing CZK 40 billion (approximately $1.7 billion) to establish an Azure region in Prague. The announcement was made during Czech Prime

Equinix PA12x is a new xScale™ (hyperscale) data center located in Argenteuil, Paris North, France. Scheduled to open in Q2 2026, the 14.4-megawatt (MW) facility is purpose-built to house large-scale cloud and AI workloads for the world's l

Equinix IL3 is a new International Business Exchange™ (IBX) data center in Istanbul, Turkey, scheduled for completion in Q3 2026. Located in the Ümraniye district, the 9-megawatt (MW) facility is built to LEED Platinum standards and aims to

Equinix MD5 is a new International Business Exchange™ (IBX) data center located in the Alcobendas district of Madrid, Spain. Scheduled for completion in Q2 2026, the facility is designed with a total IT capacity of 6.4 megawatts (MW), speci

MGX, Bpifrance, Mistral AI, and NVIDIA announced a landmark joint venture at France's Choose France investment summit in 2025 to develop Europe's largest AI campus near Paris, with a planned capacity of 1.4 gigawatts (1,400 MW) — a facility

Microsoft announced plans for a new cloud region in Romania in February 2024, backed by a $50 million infrastructure investment — part of Microsoft's broad European AI expansion that also encompasses Poland ($1B), Italy ($1.5B), Germany, an

OpenAI announced plans to establish European AI infrastructure presence in France in 2025, including data center capacity in the EU to serve European enterprise customers who require data residency within the EU. The Paris office and associ

JUPITER is Europe's first exascale-class supercomputer, housed in a modular liquid-cooled data center at Forschungszentrum Jülich. Built on Eviden BullSequana XH3000 racks populated with 24,000 NVIDIA GH200 Grace-Hopper Superchips, the syst

CoreWeave, a specialized GPU cloud provider focused on AI compute, expanded into Europe with data centers in the United Kingdom starting in 2024. With locations in the Greater London area and Manchester, CoreWeave offers NVIDIA H100 and H20

Microsoft expanded Azure into Austria with a new cloud region in 2024, establishing data residency infrastructure for Austria and extending the DACH (Germany-Austria-Switzerland) coverage footprint alongside existing German regions (West Eu

Microsoft announced the launch of its Azure Austria region in January 2024 with a €1 billion investment commitment. The Austria region is hosted in Vienna and complements Microsoft's existing Germany and Switzerland regions to cover the Ger

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure launched a Greece region in 2024, marking OCI's entry into the Southeastern European market and extending Oracle's EU-resident cloud footprint beyond its existing Germany and Netherlands regions. Greece's EU memb

Project Clover is TikTok's initiative to store European user data within European borders and segregate it from Chinese government access — responding to regulatory pressure from the European Commission, national data protection authorities

Microsoft launched the Poland Central region in January 2023 as part of a $1 billion investment in Polish digital infrastructure — its largest single-market investment in Central and Eastern Europe at the time of announcement. The region sp

Microsoft Azure Italy North, launched in 2023, is Microsoft's newest European cloud region and a cornerstone of the company's €4.3 billion commitment to Italian AI and cloud infrastructure announced in 2024. The region offers full Azure AI

NEBIUS (formerly Yandex N.V., renamed after separating international operations from Russian assets) operates a major AI cloud data center in Mäntsälä, Finland — approximately 60 km northeast of Helsinki. The Mäntsälä facility was originall

Microsoft launched its Portugal cloud region in Lisbon in October 2022, backed by a €143 million investment commitment. The region was established as part of Microsoft's broader European expansion and provides Portuguese enterprises, govern

Mistral AI, France's leading AI startup and a major player in the European open-source model ecosystem, trains its models primarily on GPU clusters hosted through OVHcloud (France's largest cloud provider) and other EU-based infrastructure.

Scaleway, the cloud computing arm of French telecom group Iliad, operates one of Europe's leading GPU cloud platforms, specializing in NVIDIA H100-powered AI compute clusters in its Paris-region data centers. Scaleway is positioned as a Eur

SAP runs AI Core infrastructure from its Walldorf, Germany headquarters data centers, powering Joule — SAP's AI assistant embedded across S/4HANA, SuccessFactors, and other enterprise software. SAP AI Core provides the model hosting and inf

The UK AI Research Resource (AIRR) is a national initiative funded by the UK government to provide sovereign AI compute for academic research and national AI development programs. The program spans two flagship systems: Isambard-AI at the U

MareNostrum 5 is a heterogeneous EuroHPC supercomputer installed at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. Its Lenovo Neptune liquid-cooled CPU partition spans 6,400 Sapphire Rapids nodes delivering 40 petaflops, complemented by accelerator n

AWS opened the Europe (Zurich) region in November 2022, becoming the first major hyperscaler cloud region in Switzerland and a landmark moment for Swiss digital sovereignty. The region spans three Availability Zones across the greater Zuric

Google Cloud's Milan region (europe-west8), launched in July 2022, is Italy's first hyperscale AI cloud region and serves as the primary Google Cloud access point for Italian enterprises, government agencies, and the broader Southern Europe

Microsoft Azure launched its Spain Central region in Madrid in October 2022, backed by a €1.26 billion investment commitment. The region was established to serve Spain's enterprise market with local data residency, supporting compliance wit

Google Cloud launched its Turkey region in Istanbul to serve one of the world's fastest-growing digital economies and a strategically positioned country bridging Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia. Turkey has a population of 85 milli

Aleph Alpha is Germany's leading AI startup, focused on sovereign, explainable AI for European enterprise and government use cases. Its training infrastructure, co-located in German data centers operated with HPE hardware, powers the Lumino

LUMI resides in a repurposed paper mill in Kajaani, Finland, where abundant hydroelectric power and direct liquid cooling enable one of the world's fastest and greenest supercomputers. The HPE Cray EX system packs 10,240 AMD Instinct MI250X

Leonardo is a EuroHPC pre-exascale supercomputer hosted at the Bologna Technopole and operated by CINECA. Built on Eviden BullSequana XH2000 technology, the system combines a 3,456-node GPU booster with 13,824 NVIDIA A100 accelerators and a

In June 2024, Microsoft announced a $3.2 billion investment to expand its Sweden Central data center region, specifically to accelerate AI transformation. The expansion includes the deployment of 20,000 advanced GPUs to support high-density

MeluXina is Luxembourg's national supercomputer, combining AMD EPYC CPU nodes with hundreds of NVIDIA A100 accelerators inside a liquid-cooled BullSequana XH2000 system. Drawing roughly 3 megawatts, the machine achieved a top-five Green500

Discoverer, Bulgaria's EuroHPC petascale system at Sofia Tech Park, was upgraded in 2025 with four NVIDIA DGX H200 systems tied into its BullSequana XH2000 cluster. The refresh adds 32 H100 GPUs, new high-speed storage, and enhanced UPS cap

Cambridge-1 is NVIDIA's national AI supercomputer for the United Kingdom, hosted within Kao Data's DGX-ready campus in Harlow. The system comprises 80 DGX A100 nodes linked with HDR InfiniBand, delivering more than 400 petaflops of AI perfo

Google's Fredericia data center in Taulov is a hyperscale facility that has become a cornerstone of the company's European AI infrastructure. Originally opened in 2020, the site has undergone multiple expansions, including significant land

Google's Fredericia data center in South Denmark is one of Google's longest-operating European facilities, first opened in 2020 and significantly expanded as AI workloads have grown. Located on the Jutland peninsula at a strategic point nea

Yandex, Russia's dominant search engine and internet company, operates AI training infrastructure across multiple data centers in the Moscow region and Siberia. The facilities power YandexGPT — Russia's largest language model — and Alice (А

Google DeepMind operates AI research compute clusters in London, anchored at its headquarters in King's Cross. These clusters support training of frontier models including Gemini (jointly with Google Brain, now merged into DeepMind), AlphaF

Meta's Odense campus is one of the world's most advanced AI-ready data centers. In 2022, Meta pivoted its design for the facility to prioritize AI workloads, integrating liquid cooling systems and high-density power distribution to support

atNorth's ICE02 campus near Keflavík, Iceland, offers more than 13,000 square meters of white space and scalable power beyond 80 megawatts for GPU-intensive tenants. The site pairs Iceland's 100% renewable hydro and geothermal grid with dir

Microsoft Azure's Switzerland North region in Zurich launched in September 2019, alongside a companion Switzerland West region in Geneva. The regions were established to serve Switzerland's highly regulated financial services sector (bankin

Alibaba Cloud operates its European hub in Frankfurt, Germany, hosting data center infrastructure that forms the backbone of the company's EU cloud region. Frankfurt was selected for its status as Europe's leading internet exchange (DE-CIX,

Huawei Cloud operates its primary European region from Frankfurt, Germany — the continent's leading internet exchange hub. The region supports Huawei's international cloud business for European enterprise customers and provides the infrastr

Microsoft's Azure France Central region, launched in 2018, is one of Microsoft's key European sovereign cloud deployments and houses the primary zone for French government and defense workloads under the "Cloud de Confiance" initiative. The

Amazon Web Services launched its EU-NORTH-1 region in Stockholm in December 2018, specifically designed to serve customers requiring data residency in northern Europe and access to ultra-low carbon cloud infrastructure. The region operates

AWS's EU West 3 region (Paris) launched in December 2017 as Amazon's first French cloud region. Comprising three Availability Zones spread across the greater Paris area, the region serves French enterprises, government customers, and AI wor

Google Cloud's Frankfurt region (europe-west3), launched in 2017, is Google's primary German AI cloud infrastructure and serves the German-speaking market — Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (DACH) — under strict German and EU data protecti

Google Cloud's London region (europe-west2), launched in July 2017, is Google's primary UK AI infrastructure facility and serves as the deployment zone for Google Cloud AI services under UK data residency requirements. The region is closely

Microsoft Azure UK South — the London region — is Microsoft's primary UK cloud and AI data center, launched in 2016 alongside the paired UK West (Cardiff) region. The London facilities span multiple data centers in the Thames Valley and Gre

Amazon Web Services EU-WEST-2 — the London region — is AWS's primary UK cloud and AI infrastructure hub, launched in December 2016. The region operates three availability zones across facilities in the London metropolitan area and is the la

Google's Eemshaven data center in the northern Netherlands is one of the company's largest European AI compute facilities. Located in the port area of Eemshaven, near Delfzijl in the province of Groningen, the campus benefits from access to

Amazon Web Services EU-CENTRAL-1 — the Frankfurt region — is AWS's flagship European AI compute hub, launched in October 2014 and expanded continuously to become one of the largest public cloud regions globally. Operating across three avail

Microsoft Azure's Netherlands region — West Europe — is one of the company's primary European cloud hubs, launched in 2014 from data centers in the Amsterdam metropolitan area. The region operates across multiple facilities in Noord-Holland

Meta's Luleå data center campus in northern Sweden is one of the company's largest and most celebrated facilities globally. Opened in 2013, it was the first Facebook/Meta data center built outside the United States and has grown into a mult

Meta's Clonee campus in County Meath was the company's first data center outside the United States, opening in 2012 and expanded continuously since. The campus now spans 288 MW of IT capacity across multiple buildings and serves as Meta's p

Google's Dublin data center campus, located in the Kilmore area of north Dublin, is the company's primary Irish AI infrastructure facility and an anchor of Google Cloud's European presence. Operational since 2011, the campus has been expand

Google's Hamina data center in southeastern Finland is one of the company's most distinctive and well-known facilities worldwide. Built inside a converted paper mill on the Gulf of Finland, the Hamina campus uses a unique seawater cooling s

Microsoft Azure North Europe — the Dublin region — is one of Microsoft's two primary European cloud regions (paired with West Europe in Amsterdam). Launched in 2009, it operates multiple data centers across the Greater Dublin area including

Amazon Web Services EU-WEST-1 — the Dublin region — is AWS's oldest European cloud region, launched in November 2007. It operates across three availability zones in the Greater Dublin area and represents one of AWS's largest European footpr

Equinix Amsterdam represents the largest concentration of data center colocation capacity in Europe, anchored by the AMS-IX internet exchange — the world's largest by peak traffic. The campus encompasses more than eleven interconnected faci

Equinix operates the largest neutral colocation and interconnection campus in Germany across multiple Frankfurt data centers, with FR2 and FR7 as the primary AI-intensive facilities. Frankfurt is Europe's premier internet exchange hub — hom

The Black Sea AI Gigafactory is a €5 billion flagship project designed to establish Romania as a high-performance computing leader in Eastern Europe. The hub is planned to be located near the Cernavodă nuclear power plant and the Small Modu

AWS announced a massive €33.7 billion investment in March 2026 to expand its infrastructure in Spain’s Aragón region. The plan includes the development of multiple high-capacity AI data center campuses across Zaragoza, Huesca, and Teruel. T

Rolls-Royce, in collaboration with the UK government, is developing small modular reactors (SMRs) to provide sustainable energy solutions for data centers. Each SMR is designed to generate approximately 470 megawatts of electricity, suffici

The N01 Campus in Kristiansand, operated by Bulk Data Centers (Bulk Infrastructure Group), is one of Europe’s most strategically positioned hyperscale AI campuses — a purpose-built facility on the southwestern Norwegian coast that combines

Microsoft is building a 300 MW flagship AI data center campus in Zaragoza, Aragón, as part of its multi-billion euro investment in Spanish digital infrastructure. The facility is specifically engineered to host high-density AI workloads for

EcoDataCenter 2, located in Borlänge, Sweden, is a flagship AI expansion project built on the site of a former paper mill. With an initial capacity of 250 MW and scalability up to 600 MW, it is one of the largest AI-ready campuses in the No

Google is developing a €600 million data center campus in Skien, Norway — the company's first major hyperscale investment in Norway and a significant expansion of Google's Northern European AI infrastructure footprint. The 240 MW facility i

"Stargate Norway" is a $1 billion "AI Gigafactory" located in Kvandal, near Narvik. A strategic collaboration between OpenAI, Nscale, and Aker, the facility is designed to host 100,000 NVIDIA GPUs by late 2026. The site leverages Narvik's A

Google and Turkcell are partnering on a $3 billion hyperscale data center project in Turkey, with groundbreaking scheduled for early 2026. The facility is designed to support the expansion of Google Cloud and AI services in the region, prov

The AION project, announced by Scaleway and the Iliad Group in June 2025, is a 200 MW AI compute campus under development at Montereau-Fault-Yonne, southeast of Paris on the confluence of the Seine and Yonne rivers. The site occupies the gr

SINES 4.0 SIN02 is a massive 180 MW expansion of the Start Campus hyperscale site in Sines, Portugal. Evolving into an "AI Gigafactory," the facility is designed to host over 12,000 next-generation NVIDIA GPUs for large-scale AI model train

Hetzner’s Falkenstein Data Center Park (FSN) in Falkenstein/Vogtland, Saxony, is the company’s second major campus and a critical GPU infrastructure node for European AI workloads. Falkenstein complements the Nuremberg campus in capacity di

Hetzner's Nuremberg Data Center Park (NUE) is the company's primary campus and one of Europe's largest independent data center parks operated by a mid-size cloud provider. Nuremberg has been Hetzner's home city since the company's founding

Magnora ASA, in partnership with Northern Europe Energy Group (NEEG), is developing a 120 MW AI-ready data center in Hämeenlinna, Finland. Located in the MORE Industrial Park, the 150,000-square-meter site is strategically positioned betwee

Polarise is developing a 120 MW AI data center in Amberg (Unterallgäu), Bavaria, at the site of a former shortwave transmitter. The project is a cornerstone of the "European Sovereign AI" initiative, aiming to provide a locally-operated, GD

Launched in early 2026, the Pure Data Centre Dublin facility is Europe’s first "islanded" microgrid data center, designed to bypass grid connection delays. The 110 MW campus was specifically built to handle high-density AI workloads, repres

Khazna Ankara, located in the Başkent Organized Industrial Zone (OIZ), is a 100 MW AI-ready data center designed to serve the growing demand for high-density compute in Turkey's capital. Developed by Khazna Data Centers (a subsidiary of G42

Microsoft is investing $700 million to expand its hyperscale cloud region near Warsaw, with a target completion date of mid-2026. This expansion focuses on increasing high-performance AI compute capacity for enterprise and public sector use

Green Mountain operates a high-security AI and HPC campus inside a former NATO facility in Rjukan, Norway. The modular halls are built in 2 megawatt blocks that scale to roughly 50 megawatts of IT load, all powered by nearby hydroelectric s

Sberbank’s Balakovo facility is a massive regional AI data center located in the Saratov region. Featuring 7 modules and 3,500 server racks, the site has an estimated capacity of approximately 50 MW. Each rack is engineered to support high-

NVIDIA and CSC — Finland's IT Center for Science — announced a joint AI Factory in Helsinki as part of NVIDIA's European Sovereign AI initiative. The facility will be powered by 100% hydroelectric power sourced from Nordic renewable energy

Yandex is developing its sixth data center in Vladimir Oblast, approximately 190 km east of Moscow, with capacity exceeding 40 MW and targeted for 2026 completion. The facility forms part of Yandex’s continuous data center expansion program

The OVHcloud Milan (MIL) region is the company's first 3-Availability Zone (3-AZ) deployment outside France, designed to meet the growing demand for sovereign cloud and AI services in Southern Europe. The region consists of three physically

DigitalOcean's Amsterdam data centers (AMS1 and AMS3) function as the company's primary AI compute hub for European customers, anchoring a strategic expansion into GPU cloud services that positions DigitalOcean against specialized AI cloud

Microsoft is developing its first hyperscale data center region in Greece, consisting of three sites in the Eastern Attica area (Spata and Koropi). The flagship ATH04 facility in Spata has a confirmed IT capacity of 19.2 MW and is specifica

Scaleway's DC5 (PAR2) is a flagship AI and high-performance computing (HPC) facility located in Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône, northwest of Paris. It is one of Europe's most significant sovereign AI compute hubs — purpose-built for ultra-high-density