Step 4 · Sell
See what it sells for
Price, fill and contract terms, as scenarios.
Markets and operators: who is building where
The pipeline, the grid, the power, the latency and the rules of a market, and the operators building in it. Counts and dated figures, from the tracker and the official sources.
Data centres in Austria
At a glance: Austria
- Pipeline projects
- 2
- 2 permitted or being built
- Checked 17 Oct 2026
- New grid connections
- No pause or cap
- No rule in force for Austria pauses, rations or conditions them
- Checked 23 Oct 2026
- Wholesale power price
- 99€/MWh
- Day-ahead, 2025 mean, Austria
- Calendar year 2025
- Grid carbon intensity
- 117g CO₂/kWh
- Yearly average, Austria
- Latest full year
- Next EU rule date
- 14 Dec 2026
- The EU Commission’s minimum performance standards consultation and call for evidence closes
- Applies EU-wide
- Latency to nearest major hub
- 7.0 ms
- Round trip, Vienna to Frankfurt
- Mapped fibre route, minimum
On 17 October 2026 the pipeline tracker lists 2 data-centre projects in Austria, and 2 of them are permitted or being built.
Data centres in Austria in October 2026
The tracker follows 2 data centre projects of 1 MW or more in Austria, 2 of them permitted or being built.
Projects by stage
What the capacity figures measure
Each capacity is on its own stated basis; never added.
What changed
1 milestone in the last 90 days.
Power and grid in Austria
No pause or cap
No rule in force pauses, rations or conditions new grid connections here. Checked 23 Oct 2026. Every country’s grid connections.
Over a year, country level
- Grid carbon, latest full-year average
- 117g CO₂/kWh
- 9th cleanest of 30 countries; 84% renewable or nuclear
- Business electricity price, latest full year
- 188€/MWh
- 20th cheapest of 26; wholesale is 54% of it
- Wholesale power, 2025 average
- 99€/MWh
- 17th cheapest of 30
- Cooling degree days
- 34a year
- 10-year national mean
Annual averages are national, for the latest full year.
Fibre latency from Vienna
| To | Round trip, minimum | Path length | Path |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prague | 2.8 ms | 286 km | Mapped fibre route |
| Munich | 3.8 ms | 385 km | Mapped fibre route |
| Berlin | 5.9 ms | 598 km | Mapped fibre route |
| Frankfurt | 7.0 ms | 713 km | Mapped fibre route |
| Paris | 11 ms | 1,099 km | Mapped fibre route |
| Amsterdam | 11 ms | 1,103 km | Mapped fibre route |
| London | 14 ms | 1,398 km | Mapped fibre route |
| Dublin | 19 ms | 1,924 km | Mapped fibre route |
Floors for light in fibre, city centre to city centre; operator fibre adds to this.
Rules and dates
Next dates
- 14 Dec 2026the EU Commission’s minimum performance standards consultation and call for evidence closes
- 15 May 2027EU database and French reports due (every year)
- 11 Oct 2027EU deadline under Article 11 of the Energy Efficiency Directive for a certified energy management system at enterprises above 85 TJ (23.6 GWh) of annual energy consumption
Formal refusals and bans since 2025
No area-wide rule recorded for Austria.
Decisions from 1 Jan 2025; statuses checked 21 Oct 2026. A market with none recorded is not a low risk market.
Projects of 1 MW or more, announced to under construction, not yet fully operating; a metro includes its region. Capacities are never added, and no project is listed. Grid: new-connection status from the grid connection tracker. Over a year: national averages, latest full year. Latency: light in fibre over the mapped land route, else the straight line. Sources, 3 official bodies, checked 23 October 2026: Austrian Power Grid (APG), EUR-Lex (Official Journal of the EU), RIS (Austrian federal law).