“Looking at Romania’s population and taking into account AI expansion and the shift to cloud, there is potential in Romania for data centers of 100 MW, compared to around 10 we now have in Bucharest. We are talking about possible overall investments of EUR900 million,” said Stephen Beard, global head of data centers at Knight Frank.
He underscored that beyond the office market that still has growth potential, major investors want to diversify their portfolios and data centers are the new field that will attract new capital placements.
What do such investments mean for the economy? They attract new investors and large sums of money, together with new IT jobs. Moreover, setting up the data centers containing confidential information of entities of Romania locally increases data security.
(English version by Catalina Apostoiu)