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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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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 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 Saint-Ghislain campus in Wallonia, Belgium is one of the company's largest and most innovative European data center facilities. Opened in 2010, it was built on the site of a former industrial facility and is notable for its pioneer

Google's Saint-Ghislain data center, open since 2010, is one of the company's oldest and most significant European facilities — a founding node of Google's European cloud infrastructure that has been continuously expanded for 15 years to be

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

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

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

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

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

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

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