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Posted on May 15, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 23, 2026
Add as preferred source on GoogleItaly's data centre power requests hit 42 GW by March, up from 30 GW last year, with investments expected to double by 2025-2026.
MILAN (Reuters) -Requests for power connections to set up data centres in Italy reached 42 gigawatts (GW) at the of March, the country's grid operator Terna said on Thursday.
At the end of last year the requests for connections to the high-voltage grid managed by Terna amounted to 30 GW.
Investments in Italy's data centres will double to 10 billion euros in the 2025-2026 period compared with the previous two years as technology heavyweights roll out spending plans, a research hub of Milan's Polytechnic University estimated in January.
(Reporting by Francesca Landini, editing by Gavin Jones)
The article discusses the rise in power connection requests for data centres in Italy, reaching 42 GW by March.
What are the projected investments in Italy's data centres? Investments are expected to double to 10 billion euros by 2025-2026.
Who reported the increase in power requests? The increase was reported by Italy's grid operator, Terna.
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