Eastern Europe AI Data Center Feed

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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-

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

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