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 · Reuters

Toby Sterling

Thu, February 12, 2026 at 9:05 PM GMT+9 1 min read

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By Toby Sterling

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.

Nebius has gained prominence by striking high-profile deals to supply AI infrastructure to U.S. hyperscalers, including a $17 billion deal with Microsoft and ‌a $3 billion deal with ​Meta. It is often ​grouped with ​Coreweave of the U.S. as ‌one of the key ​so-called “neocloud” firms.

Although ​financial terms of the Béthune project were not disclosed, a data centre ​of this ‌scale would require several billion euros ​in investment.

(Reporting by Toby Sterling; Editing ​by Emelia Sithole-Matarise)

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