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Data centers in Belgium: 4 projects mapped
Google is Belgium's biggest data center builder. It runs a campus at Saint-Ghislain in Hainaut province, open since 2010 and its first in Europe, and is building a second, three-building campus on 53 hectares of the Ecopôle business park at Farciennes, near Charleroi. A third Google site, at Feluy-Écaussinnes, has a permit but no high-voltage grid connection yet; Wallonia's economy minister, Pierre-Yves Jeholet, said the goal is for it to open in 2029.
The neighbors notice the growth. Anne More, 68, lives 200 meters from the Saint-Ghislain buildings and told the magazine Médor that a new extension under construction is causing trouble, noise first of all; she bought headphones to block it out. At Farciennes, which the Brussels Times called Wallonia's poorest municipality, about 100 delegates of the FGTB union protested at the construction site on March 24, 2026, and were refused permission to meet the foreign workers employed there.
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Google said the Farciennes campus, part of a 1 billion euro investment, would bring about 100 permanent jobs; Saint-Ghislain employs more than 400 people. The permit requires rooftop solar, 95 percent carbon-free energy by 2030, air cooling in place of water-hungry systems, and a link to a district heating network. The grid operator Elia confirmed 200 to 300 megawatts of power for the site. Power is now the main limit: until Elia upgrades its lines, the local distributor Ores will connect the Feluy site only temporarily, at medium voltage.
Near Brussels, Digital Realty runs a data center on Mercuriusstraat in Zaventem.
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Flanders2
| Project | Company | Status | Power | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Digital Realty Brussels (Zaventem) | Digital Realty | Not reported | Source off site ↗ | |
| Equinix Brussels Vilvoorde Campus (BR1) | Equinix | Not reported | Not reported | Source off site ↗ |
Wallonia2
| Project | Company | Status | Power | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google FarciennesFarciennes | Under construction | Not reported | ||
| Google Ghlin | Not reported |
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