Amsterdam-based AI firm Nebius to build 240MW data centre near Lille, France


A view shows detail of racks for data servers, GPUs and CPUs inside a Nebius data centre, in Chertsey, Britain, November 6, 2025. REUTERS/Toby Melville

AMSTERDAM, ⁠Feb 12 (Reuters) - Nebius, the Amsterdam-based ⁠AI cloud services firm, is planning ‌a new 240-megawatt data centre in Béthune, France, near Lille, that will be one of Europe’s ​largest when it is finished, ⁠the company said ⁠on Thursday.

The project, a redevelopment of a ⁠former ‌Bridgestone tyre plant, is expected to begin delivering capacity in ⁠phases, with the first capacity online by ​late ‌summer and roughly half the site ⁠operational by ​the end of 2026, company Chief Communications Officer Tom Blackwell said.

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