European Utilities & Clean Energy: Data Centre Tracker Update: Steady Growth Ahead

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European Utilities & Clean Energy: Data Centre Tracker Update: Steady Growth Ahead

Equity Research

European Utilities & Clean Energy

10 June 2026

Data Centre Tracker Update:

Steady Growth Ahead Industry Update

After a 2-month pause, we revive our European Data Centre European Utilities & Clean Energy

tracker, moving to monthly updates. We see Europe reaching POSITIVE

an unprecedented 83GW pipeline (ex. Stargate UK), with European Utilities & Clean Energy

Laura Marconi

France taking the 3rd place behind UK & Spain. Whilst the +44 (0)20 3555 0762

policy backdrop remains supportive, we view grids as major laura.marconi@barclays.com

Barclays, UK

bottleneck Dominic Nash, PhD

+44 (0)20 3134 2364

After a 2-month pause, we update our European DC tracker and see prior trends continuing. dominic.nash@barclays.com

Going forward, we will publish monthly updates. The full DC dataset is available upon Barclays, UK

request. Peter Crampton

+44 (0)20 3555 0125

We continue to see the European pipeline grow at speed ... peter.crampton2@barclays.com

Europe reached a 82.7GW announced DC pipeline (of which at least 69.5GW AI) with Barclays, UK

€788.7bn in related investments

Over the last two months, we have seen large-scale DC announcements across Europe:

•• France: SoftBank announced plans to develop and operate 5GW of AI data centre capacity in

France in a partnership with Schneider Electric, investing up to €75bn or €15m/MW. In the first

phase, the investment company targets an initial €45bn investment to deliver 3.1GW across

the Hauts-de-France region by 2031. We record the initial 3.1GW in our tracker, deeming

France the country with the largest pipeline step-up in the last 2 months.

•• Italy: Green Arrow Capital announced it entered into a JV with Gruppo Lazzari to invest over