{"id":932613,"date":"2026-09-07T22:17:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T03:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/making-the-data-center-business-case\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T22:17:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T03:17:02","slug":"making-the-data-center-business-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/making-the-data-center-business-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Making the data center business case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-66e2cde7b36a1\">\n<p><main role=\"main\" id=\"block-66e2cde7b36ef\"><\/p>\n<p>\n    \t\tA data center can be built in 18 to 24 months, but connecting it to the grid is another matter, writes Laura Hoffmann-Ostenhof, Europe industry lead at modeling software supplier Gridcog. Across Europe\u2019s established hubs \u2013 the FLAP-D cluster of Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, Paris and Dublin \u2013 the wait for a grid connection now runs from seven to 10 years, as data centers compete for capacity.    <\/p>\n<div id>\n<div>\n<p>\n                            By                                                            <\/p>\n<p><span>Laura Hoffman-Ostenhof<\/span>\n                    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2026-08-15 06:00\"><br \/>\n                15 Aug 2026            <\/time>\n        <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div data-original-image=\"https:\/\/www.pv-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/06013_Belgium_data_center.jpg\" id>\n<picture><source  ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt title=\"06013_Belgium_data_center\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pv-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/06013_Belgium_data_center-1024x723.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"723\" data-caption=\"Google\u2019s Saint-Ghislain data center in Belgium uses solar. | Image: Google\">\n<\/picture><figcaption>\n                    <span>Google\u2019s Saint-Ghislain data center in Belgium uses solar.<\/span><br \/>\n                            <span> | <\/span><br \/>\n                            <span>Image: Google<\/span><br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The scale is easy to underestimate. The pipeline for data centers in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region is growing more than 40% year on year. FLAP-D available data center capacity has fallen to around 6%, with over 80% of it pre-let before completion. Yet most building is happening outside Europe. BloombergNEF counted \u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>            <\/main><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> Mark Hutchins <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pv-magazine.com\/2026\/08\/15\/making-the-data-center-business-case\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A data center can be built in 18 to 24 months, but connecting it to the grid is another matter, writes Laura Hoffmann-Ostenhof, Europe industry lead at modeling software supplier Gridcog. Across Europe\u2019s established hubs \u2013 the FLAP-D cluster of Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, Paris and Dublin \u2013 the wait for a grid connection now runs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":932614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,1510],"tags":[5700,5287],"class_list":["post-932613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-center","category-making","tag-center","tag-making"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}