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JLL Report: How AI is Redrawing Europe’s Data Centre Map

Datacentremagazine · · 721 words · By Saffron Humphreys
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What to know about JLL Report: How AI is Redrawing Europe’s Data Centre Map

A JLL report indicates that AI workloads are shifting the development of hyperscale data centres away from major European hubs toward secondary markets and the Middle East due to power and land constraints. The report highlights a significant increase in capital expenditure and a rise in greenfield developments to accommodate the scale of AI infrastructure.

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What happened

JLL Report: How AI is Redrawing Europe’s Data Centre Map The map is changing for data centre developers.

Why it matters

JLL’s latest EMEA Mid-Year Data Centre Report 2026 shows AI workloads are pushing hyperscale projects away from Europe’s biggest hubs and towards locations where power and land are available.

Common ground

The reason is simple: AI needs data centres on a different scale.

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A JLL report indicates that AI workloads are shifting the development of hyperscale data centres away from major European hubs toward secondary markets and the Middle East due to power and land constraints. The report highlights a significant increase in capital expenditure and a rise in greenfield developments to accommodate the scale of AI infrastructure.

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Claim 1: “Sovereign-backed developments include HUMAIN’s planned 100MW AI campus in Dammam and Stargate UAE’s first 200MW AI facility.”
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Claim 2: “Greenfield projects... now account for 39% of Europe’s future pipeline, up from 8% over the previous three years.”
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No evidence was found after searching for greenfield project percentages in Europe's pipeline.
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Claim 3: “JLL expects AI workloads to account for half of all global capacity by 2030”
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Multiple sources confirm JLL's projection that AI workloads will account for 50% of global data center capacity by 2030.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — AI commonly refers to artificial intelligence, which is intelligence demonstrated by machines. Ai, ai, a.i, A.I or AI may also refer to:
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and dec…
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Claim 4: “Projects planned between 2026 and 2028 sit an average of 175km from major hub cities, compared with 46km for hyperscale campuses delivered between 2022 and 2025.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa (DATA) was a multinational non-governmental organization founded in January 2002 in London by U2's lead vocalist, Bono, with Bobby Shriver and activists from the Jubilee 2000…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Data ( DAY-tə, US also DAT-ə) is a collection of discrete or continuous values that conveys information, describing the quantity, quality, fact, statistics, other basic units of meaning, or simply se…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A data center is a physical room, building, or facility for storing, managing, and disseminating data and information, including computer systems and associated components, housing IT infrastructure, …
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Claim 5: “The world’s four largest hyperscale cloud providers are expected to invest US$725bn in capital expenditure during 2026, a 77% increase on the US$410bn committed in 2025.”
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Claim 6: “Live capacity across Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, Paris and Dublin (FLAP-D) reached 3.8GW, more than doubling since 2019.”
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Claim 7: “Vacancy across FLAP-D remains tight at 6.4%, with Frankfurt recording 3.1%.”
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Claim 8: “Paris delivered 72.5MW of new capacity in the first half of 2026, exceeding its full-year forecast.”
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web search NEUTRAL — The contracted capacity is expected to support up to 2,048 NVIDIA Blackwell B300-class GPUs. Delivery is conditioned on the provider completing the transition of the premises with the existing occupan…
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web search NEUTRAL — Sightline Climate finds at least 16 GW of data centre capacity was planned for 2026, but only about 5 GW is actually under construction — and it expects between 30% and 50% of large facilities schedul…
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web search NEUTRAL — 2026-08-21 15:23:45. SINGAPORE, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- Singapore has provisionally allocated 200 megawatts (MW) of new data center capacity to four operators, as the city-state seeks to expand its artifi…
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Claim 9: “Annual deliveries are forecast to reach 453MW during 2026, almost three times the 2020 level.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An AI data center is a specialized data center facility designed for the computationally intensive tasks of training and running artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning models. Unlike genera…
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Claim 10: “JLL’s report finds the region [Middle East] has 2.6GW under construction and 13.8GW in planning, with capacity set to quadruple by 2030.”
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No evidence was found after searching for JLL's report on Middle East data center capacity.
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Claim 11: “A further 1.4GW is under construction, with 2GW in the planned pipeline [across FLAP-D].”
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web search NEUTRAL — This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Flap. If an internal link incorrectly led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
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web search NEUTRAL — Aug 18, 2026 · The meaning of FLAP is something that is broad or flat and usually thin and flexible and that hangs loose or projects freely. How to use flap in a sentence.
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