Data centres in Switzerland
Oct 2026: 7 projects in the pipeline in Switzerland, 5 permitted or being built.No pause or cap on new grid connections. Wholesale power €99/MWh in 2025.
Pipeline movement, last 24 months
5 milestones ·
121 data centres on record in Switzerland
Projects by stage
Who is building in Switzerland
Capacity by stage
- IT load, all stages
- 40.5 MW
- IT load, under construction
- 12 MW
- Projects
- 7
Stated by each project, . Bases are never added together.
| Stage | IT load, MW | Facility power, MW | Projects |
|---|---|---|---|
| Announced | 28.5 | · | 2 |
| In planning | · | · | 0 |
| Permitted | · | 7.5 | 1 |
| Under construction | 12 | 500 | 4 |
| In service | · | · | 0 |
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Market economics, Zurich
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- Construction cost
- Premium figure
- EUR m per MW
- Mar 2026
- Grid connection wait
- Premium figure
- years
- Oct 2026
- Permitting
- Premium figure
- months
- Oct 2023
- Staff cost
- Premium figure
- EUR k per FTE a year
- 2025
Operators in Switzerland
What changed
1 milestone since 1 Aug 2026; the newest is from Sep 2026.
Power and grid in Switzerland
No pause or cap
No rule in force pauses, rations or conditions new grid connections here. Every country’s grid connections
Over a year, country level
- Grid carbon, latest full-year average
- 39g CO₂/kWh
- 3rd cleanest of 30 countries; 98% renewable or nuclear
- Wholesale power, 2025 average
- 99€/MWh
- 16th cheapest of 30
Climate at Zurich
- Hours a year above 27 °C dry-bulb
- 168h
- mean of 2016 to 2025
- Hours a year above 32 °C dry-bulb
- 11h
- worst year 32 h
- Hours a year above 20 °C wet-bulb
- 120h
- limit for evaporative cooling
Fibre latency from Zurich
| To | Round trip, minimum | Path length | Path |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milan | 2.2 ms | 225 km | Mapped fibre route |
| Munich | 3.0 ms | 302 km | Mapped fibre route |
| Frankfurt | 3.4 ms | 349 km | Mapped fibre route |
| Paris | 5.9 ms | 601 km | Mapped fibre route |
| Brussels | 6.7 ms | 681 km | Mapped fibre route |
| Amsterdam | 7.0 ms | 715 km | Mapped fibre route |
| London | 8.8 ms | 900 km | Mapped fibre route |
| Dublin | 14 ms | 1,426 km | Mapped fibre route |
Rules and dates
Next dates
- 1 Jan 2027end of the transition for the waste-heat rule in Article 23 of the Energy Act of Schaffhausen, a canton of Switzerland
Formal refusals and bans since 2025
No area-wide rule recorded for Switzerland.