Status: Under Construction | Location: Rue de la Neuville 21, 6240 Farciennes, Belgium
The Google Farciennes Data Center Campus represents Google’s second major infrastructure investment in Belgium, located within the Ecopôle eco-business park in Wallonia, Farciennes. Backed by a strategic €1 billion ($1.1 billion USD) capital deployment, this massive three-building, 53,000-square-meter facility is engineered from the ground up to address the skyrocketing demands of European artificial intelligence processing, sovereign cloud scalability, and distributed high-performance computing (HPC) networks. The campus architecture is heavily customized to support the physical and thermal requirements of modern graphics processing unit (GPU) clusters. To handle the dense heat dissipation from these workloads while adhering to strict Western European environmental standards, Google has integrated a highly efficient, closed-loop air-based cooling setup paired with direct-to-chip liquid cooling manifolds. This localized mechanical framework allows the facility to bypass heavy water evaporation systems, drastically lowering local water consumption and enabling the massive site to target an ultra-efficient Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of 1.15.
| Field | Value |
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| Project Name | Google Farciennes AI-Ready Data Center Campus |
| Location | Rue de la Neuville 21, 6240 Farciennes, Belgium |
| Status | Under Construction |
| Project Type | Hyperscale Cloud & AI Infrastructure Center |
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| Header | Details |
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| City Name | Farciennes |
| Population | Approximately 11,500 |
| Urban Agglomeration | Approximately 610,000 (Charleroi Metropolitan Area) |
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