Step 4 · Sell · Intelligence
What the intelligence pages answer.
Five questions a data-centre board asks about Europe, answered from today’s dataset.
- 474data-centre projects in the pipeline
- 31market pages
- 17countries in the grid connection tracker
Coverage and quality.
- What is included
- 474 projects of 1 MW or more, or with no capacity published, in the EU, the UK, Norway and Switzerland, and 36 operators.
- What is not covered
- Sites in service over a year, projects under 1 MW and publicly disputed projects. No ratings of operators or sites.
- Why the counts differ
- 31 market pages; the multi-year plan prices 17 of them; the grid tracker covers 17 countries.
- Sources and units
- Official records, linked on each tracker. Capacity keeps its source’s basis and is never added across bases.
- Review cadence
- Most rows are rechecked monthly and show their last check. What changed logs each week.
- Corrections
- Report an error from the contact page.
01
Where is new capacity being built, and how far along is it?
474 data-centre projects of 1 MW or more in 24 countries. 207 are permitted or being built, 114 of them already on site.
Checked 19 Oct 2026
Open the pipeline trackerProjects by stage, Europe
474 projects
- 267Announced or in planning
- 93Permitted or contractor appointed
- 114Under construction or structure complete
Projects are counted; capacities are never added. What changed this week.
02
Where can a new site still get a grid connection?
New connections are paused in all or part of 2 of the 17 countries we track and rationed in 5. Only 4 have no pause, cap or condition on them.
Checked 23 Oct 2026
Open the grid connection trackerNew connections for large loads
17 countries
- 2Paused
- 5Rationed
- 2Congested
- 4Conditional
- 4No pause or cap
Paused or rationed in all or part of the grid.
03
How do the markets compare on the numbers that decide a site?
31 markets compared on up to six measures: projects, how many are permitted or being built, the rule on new grid connections, power price, grid carbon and latency to the nearest major hub.
Open the market pages04
Who is building, and where?
36 operators and developers with three or more projects in the pipeline, 27 of them in more than one country.
Checked 18 Oct 2026
Open the operator pages05
What does power cost and emit right now?
Grid carbon intensity and day-ahead power prices for 15 European markets, hour by hour, with the cleanest and the cheapest hours to run flexible compute.
Open the live gridThe datasets behind it.
- Tracker
European data-centre pipeline
Data-centre projects of 1 MW or more announced, in planning, permitted or being built across Europe, by country and stage.474 data-centre projects in the pipelineOpen tracker - Markets
Data-centre markets in Europe
One page per market: the projects in the pipeline, plus grid carbon, power prices, climate, fibre latency and the rules that apply there.31 market pagesOpen the markets - Operators
Data-centre operators and developers in Europe
One page per company building in Europe: its projects by stage, the markets it is in and its latest milestones.36 operators and developersOpen the operators - Tracker
Grid connection tracker
Where new data centres can still connect in Europe: the rules that pause, ration or condition new connections, market by market.17 countries in the grid connection trackerOpen tracker - Live
Live European grid for data centres
Carbon intensity, day-ahead power prices and the best hours to run flexible compute across the main European data-centre markets.15 live grid marketsOpen the live grid - Monthly
European Grid Index for data centres
Grid carbon intensity for a constant load in each European power market, ranked once a month with the same method.Open the Index - Connectivity
Fibre latency between hubs
The lowest round trip physics allows between European data-centre hubs, with a route factor for real cable paths.20 hubs comparedOpen tool - Comparison
Five data-centre markets, side by side
Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Zurich, Madrid and Helsinki on power price, grid carbon, climate and the rules that apply, each figure dated.Open comparison
The research behind the pages.
Two editions built from the same dataset.
Market study European Data Centre Economics 2026
Edition 1 · Version 1.0, 11 October 2026· Evidence to 10 October 2026 What capacity sells for, what it costs to build and power, who is buying, and where the next margin sitsPipeline report, quarterly European Data-Centre Pipeline Report
Q4 2026 · Version 1.0, 11 October 2026· Evidence to 11 October 2026 Data-centre projects announced, in planning, permitted or under construction across Europe, by market, with the latest milestone of every project
Try the plan on round example values.
The multi-year plan opens on example values for a site you describe, with the market, the grid and the costs in one case. These pages stay free to read.