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Data4 Escaudain: €5B 700MW Hyperscale Campus in France
Status: Active / Master Planning & Environmental Site Permitting Phase (Tracking June 2026) | Location: Former Parc des Soufflantes Industrial Redevelopment Site, Escaudain, Northern France
Project Overview
The Data4 Escaudain Data Center Campus is a monumental digital infrastructure asset officially unveiled by European operator Data4 on June 16, 2026. Representing a massive €5 billion (US$5.8 billion) capital blueprint, this giga-scale development stands as the single largest data center investment in the company's history and across the French market. The project is specifically engineered from the ground up to establish a massive computational engine tailored to absorb skyrocketing European demand for high-performance computing (HPC), deep cloud migrations, and modern artificial intelligence architectures. Advancing systematically through site environmental master-planning and spatial layout optimization in mid-2026, the campus transforms a 33-hectare parcel at the former Parc des Soufflantes industrial site. Strategically positioned between Europe's traditional core FLAP-D (Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, Paris, and Dublin) data markets, the Escaudain complex completely bypasses the severe grid locks and land scarcity throttling nearby capital metros. By redeveloping a historic industrial site, the massive project will create thousands of regional construction jobs and hundreds of high-wage technical roles while providing hyperscale tenants with immediate speed-to-market and unparalleled grid connectivity.
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Project Name | Data4 Escaudain: €5B 700MW Hyperscale Campus in France |
| Location | Former Parc des Soufflantes Industrial Redevelopment Site, Escaudain, Northern France |
| Status | Active / Master Planning & Environmental Site Permitting Phase (Tracking June 2026) |
| Project Type | Brownfield Industrial Redevelopment, Giga-Scale AI & Hyperscale Cloud Campus |
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City Profile
| Header | Details |
|---|---|
| City Name | Escaudain |
| Population | Approximately 9,300 |
| Urban Agglomeration | Approximately 337,000 (Valenciennes Urban Area) |
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