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Google Plans At Least €13 Billion for Finnish AI Infrastructure

September 9, 2026 at 03:10 EDT

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Google is planning at least €13 billion in AI infrastructure in Finland over the next two years, in what it describes as its largest European investment. The program would expand the Hamina data-center campus and add three new Finnish sites.

09 Sep 2026 · Google

At Least €13B for Finnish AI Infrastructure

The two-year plan would expand Hamina and add three new data centers as Google scales AI and cloud capacity.

€13B+

planned investment

data centers in program

16,000

construction jobs

7,000

direct and indirect jobs after build-out

Scale of the commitment

The new plan is larger than Google's existing Finnish footprint

Planned investment compared with more than €4.5B already invested in Finland.

€13B+

new two-year plan

€4.5B+

existing Finnish investment

Each full block represents about €1B; the half block represents about €0.5B.

What it adds

More capacity, more activity

AI and cloud infrastructure
Construction and supplier demand
Heat recovery for district heating

What can slow it

Power and delivery risk

Transmission-grid constraints
Permits and electricity-tax changes
Plans must become operating capacity

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