data centre plans are too speculative, and that challenges, resulting in construction delays. investments are announced, often a billion euro or greater in scale. Looking at the base year of this report, it was calculated that almost 5.4 Europe by storm: scale colocation. Essentially, scale colocation offers very large customers, new data centres in Europe. In 2024, this grows often hyperscale cloud providers, very large, by more than 50% to 8.5 billion. Between 2025 be adapted for purpose. Increasingly, these and 2030, the multi-year volume of investments is likely to exceed 87 billion, bringing the total across the total time frame. A conservative Gigawatt. The size and scale of these facilities model was used to calculate this, assuming that Al will lead to additional growth, but not increasing demand for cloud and Al workloads. on an ongoing, exponential basis, that some