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 Latvia
At a glance: Latvia
- Pipeline projects
- 1
- None permitted or being built yet
- Checked 10 Oct 2026
- Wholesale power price
- 86€/MWh
- Day-ahead, 2025 mean, Latvia
- Calendar year 2025
- Grid carbon intensity
- 134g CO₂/kWh
- Yearly average, Latvia
- 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
- Business electricity price
- 129€/MWh
- Non-household, with network charges and taxes
- Latest full year
On 10 October 2026 the pipeline tracker lists 1 data-centre project in Latvia, and none is permitted or being built yet.
Data centres in Latvia in October 2026
The tracker follows 1 data centre project of 1 MW or more in Latvia, none of them permitted yet.
Projects by stage
What the capacity figures measure
Each capacity is on its own stated basis; never added.
What changed
1 milestone since 1 Aug 2026.
Power and grid in Latvia
Over a year, country level
- Grid carbon, latest full-year average
- 134g CO₂/kWh
- 11th cleanest of 30 countries; 74% renewable or nuclear
- Business electricity price, latest full year
- 129€/MWh
- 10th cheapest of 26; wholesale is 73% of it
- Wholesale power, 2025 average
- 86€/MWh
- 11th cheapest of 30
- Cooling degree days
- 11a year
- 10-year national mean
Annual averages are national, for the latest full year.
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 Latvia.
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, 1 official bodies, checked 23 October 2026: EUR-Lex (Official Journal of the EU).