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 Italy
At a glance: Italy
- Pipeline projects
- 52
- 12 permitted or being built
- Checked 17 Oct 2026
- New grid connections
- No pause or cap
- No rule in force for Italy pauses, rations or conditions them
- Checked 23 Oct 2026
- Wholesale power price
- 122€/MWh
- Day-ahead, 2025 mean, Italy
- Calendar year 2025
- Grid carbon intensity
- 285g CO₂/kWh
- Yearly average, Italy
- 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
- 5.6 ms
- Round trip, Milan to Frankfurt
- Mapped fibre route, minimum
On 17 October 2026 the pipeline tracker lists 52 data-centre projects in Italy, and 12 of them are permitted or being built.
Data centres in Italy in October 2026
The tracker follows 52 data centre projects of 1 MW or more in Italy, 12 of them permitted or being built. 44 developers are behind them; none has more than 2 projects.
Projects by stage
What the capacity figures measure
Each capacity is on its own stated basis; never added.
Who is building in Italy
And 34 other developers with one project each; 2 projects with no developer named. A joint venture counts once per partner. All operators and developers.
Where the data centres are in Italy
What changed
23 milestones in the last 90 days; the newest is from Oct 2026.
Power and grid in Italy
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
- 285g CO₂/kWh
- 23rd cleanest of 30 countries; 49% renewable or nuclear
- Business electricity price, latest full year
- 172€/MWh
- 17th cheapest of 26; wholesale is 69% of it
- Wholesale power, 2025 average
- 122€/MWh
- 29th cheapest of 30
Climate at Milan
- Hours a year above 27 °C dry-bulb
- 789h
- mean of 2016 to 2025
- Hours a year above 32 °C dry-bulb
- 146h
- worst year 285 h
- Hours a year above 20 °C wet-bulb
- 1,136h
- limit for evaporative cooling
Hourly reanalysis at the city’s grid cell, 2016 to 2025.
Annual averages are national, for the latest full year.
Fibre latency from Milan
| To | Round trip, minimum | Path length | Path |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zurich | 2.2 ms | 225 km | Mapped fibre route |
| Munich | 4.1 ms | 418 km | Mapped fibre route |
| Marseille | 4.3 ms | 440 km | Mapped fibre route |
| Frankfurt | 5.6 ms | 573 km | Mapped fibre route |
| Paris | 8.0 ms | 817 km | Mapped fibre route |
| Amsterdam | 9.2 ms | 939 km | Mapped fibre route |
| London | 11 ms | 1,115 km | Mapped fibre route |
| Dublin | 16 ms | 1,642 km | Mapped fibre route |
Floors for light in fibre, city centre to city centre; operator fibre adds to this.
Rules and dates
| Where | Rule | Status |
|---|---|---|
| EU | Reporting duty from 500 kW installed IT power, 7 items and 24 indicators, next report 15 May 2027 | In force |
| EU | Waste-heat use above 1 MW total rated energy input, unless a cost-benefit assessment shows it is not feasible | In force |
| EU | Common rating scheme adopted 21 Sep 2026; in Parliament and Council scrutiny, extended 6 Oct | Adopted, not in force |
| Italy | Single authorisation for building, expanding and running a data centre and its grid connection, decided within 10 months (up to 3 more in exceptional cases); no power threshold | In force |
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 Italy.
2 decisions on single sites since 2025, not listed here.
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, 9 official bodies, checked 23 October 2026: Camera dei deputati, Comune di Bollate, Comune di Treviglio, Comune di Zibido San Giacomo, Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5), EUR-Lex (Official Journal of the EU), Italian Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security, Regione Lombardia, Terna.