Los European data centers will grow this year 2025 in capacity 22% With respect to last year. But according to Reuters, still They will have difficulty covering all demandwhich puts Europe at risk of falling back in terms of artificial intelligence for another reason.
China Depseek has shown that more efficient models can be developed in energy consumption and computing, but that will not prevent Europe from having the saturation problems of the electricity grid in some areas, as well as a reduction of adequate locations for the construction of new suitable sites to build new data centers.
All despite the fact that large technological ones, such as Google or Amazon, have plans for the development of large -scale data centers. As for European companies, especially large ones, they also need more space for storage and workloads related to AI.
But according to Kevin Restivo, Director of Research in Data Centers of the CBRE consultant«Suppliers cannot build quickly enough to meet all demand«. Space problems, on the other hand, are more accused in the great hubs of European data centers, such as Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, Paris and Dublin. In them, the restrictions posed by the Electricity are limiting the growth of the capacity of this type of facilities.
As a consequence, there are already secondary markets that are experiencing great growth in Europe. Of these, those who will register greater growth in 2025 will be Milan, Warsaw and Berlin. But companies are already looking for space for some time outside the areas of influence of the large urban nuclei.
The CBRE consultancy provides that this year, the total capacity that will be put online, measured by the amount of electricity necessary to boost data centers, will be about 9.1 gigawatts. Hyperscales will put more than the third capacity of the total. He also estimates that the average Price in Europe to build space to place these centers, or of the space rented by large companies within one of them, at 12 million euros per Megavatio.
This means that The sector will be expanded in 2025 in Europe in more than 100,000 million eurosalthough this figure is much smaller than the United States, which only in the Stargate initiative for Oracle, Microsoft and OpenAi will spend half a billion euros in the next four years.
