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August 2026: are governments now the dealmakers in data centres?
In August 2026, European governments stopped watching the data centre boom and started steering it, using planning, public funds, tax and land to decide where the capital lands. Britain rewrote its planning rulebook, France offered state land and nuclear power, and Finland changed the sector's tax mid-year. A country-by-country recap of the month, Nordics first.
European data centres is shifting.
Europe's data centre map is being redrawn. Here is where the builds, the power and the hiring are heading next.
Power decides everything now: Europe's data centre =
Power, not demand, now decides who builds in Europe. This week's edition looks at four markets handling that reality in four very different ways: Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain, and Germany. Plus the H1 numbers showing who actually delivered...
European Data Center Construction: What's Happening This Week
Europe's five core data center markets added 194 megawatts of capacity in the first half of 2026, but Ireland's grid restrictions meant Dublin captured barely a tenth of what Paris did. Here's what actually happened this week in European data center construction, market by market.
The History of Data Center Construction in Europe
Data center construction in Europe is now a 176 billion euro investment sector, spanning 3,400 facilities across 45 countries. Here is how the industry grew from dot com era colocation to today's hyperscale boom, and where data center construction stands in 2026.
Is There a Data Center Talent Shortage?
Two in three data center operators say they can't find or keep enough qualified staff. That's not a guess, it's the headline finding from Uptime Institute's latest global survey of 864 industry professionals, and it lines up with what we're seeing on the ground across Europe.