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 Switzerland
At a glance: Switzerland
- Pipeline projects
- 6
- 5 permitted or being built
- Checked 17 Oct 2026
- New grid connections
- No pause or cap
- No rule in force for Switzerland pauses, rations or conditions them
- Checked 23 Oct 2026
- Wholesale power price
- 99€/MWh
- Day-ahead, 2025 mean of 9 months, Switzerland
- Calendar year 2025
- Grid carbon intensity
- 39g CO₂/kWh
- Yearly average, Switzerland
- Latest full year
- Next national rule date
- 1 Jan 2027
- End of the transition for the waste-heat rule in Article 23 of the Energy Act of Schaffhausen
- Applies in Switzerland
- Latency to nearest major hub
- 3.4 ms
- Round trip, Zurich to Frankfurt
- Mapped fibre route, minimum
On 17 October 2026 the pipeline tracker lists 6 data-centre projects in Switzerland, and 5 of them are permitted or being built.
Data centres in Switzerland in October 2026
The tracker follows 6 data centre projects of 1 MW or more in Switzerland, 5 of them permitted or being built. 5 developers are behind them, led by Green Datacenter with 2 projects.
Projects by stage
What the capacity figures measure
Each capacity is on its own stated basis; never added.
Who is building in Switzerland
A joint venture counts once per partner. All operators and developers.
What changed
1 milestone in the last 90 days; 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. Checked 23 Oct 2026. 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
Hourly reanalysis at the city’s grid cell, 2016 to 2025.
Annual averages are national, for the latest full year.
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 |
Floors for light in fibre, city centre to city centre; operator fibre adds to this.
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.
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 14 October 2026: Canton of Zurich, Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5), Swissgrid.