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Toby Sterling
Thu, February 12, 2026 astatine 6:05 AM CST 1 min read
By Toby Sterling
AMSTERDAM, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Nebius, the Amsterdam-based AI unreality services firm, is readying a caller 240-megawatt information centre successful Béthune, France, adjacent Lille, that will beryllium 1 of Europe’s largest erstwhile it is finished, the institution said connected Thursday.
The project, a redevelopment of a erstwhile Bridgestone tyre plant, is expected to statesman delivering capableness successful phases, with the archetypal capableness online by precocious summertime and astir fractional the tract operational by the extremity of 2026, institution Chief Communications Officer Tom Blackwell said.
Nebius has gained prominence by striking high-profile deals to proviso AI infrastructure to U.S. hyperscalers, including a $17 cardinal woody with Microsoft and a $3 cardinal woody with Meta. It is often grouped with Coreweave of the U.S. arsenic one of the cardinal so-called "neocloud" firms.
Although financial presumption of the Béthune task were not disclosed, a information centre of this scale would necessitate respective cardinal euros in investment.
(Reporting by Toby Sterling; Editing by Emelia Sithole-Matarise)
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