Pure Data Centres Group (Pure DC) has signed its largest standalone hyperscale data center lease in Europe for 2025, by securing a single hyperscale customer for an entire 78MW campus in Westpoort, Amsterdam. Pure DC will invest more than €1 billion (US$ 1.2 billion) to develop the site.
According to a press release, the agreement covers the full campus with Pure DC responsible for site acquisition, planning permissions and power infrastructure. Construction of the private substation has already been completed and the facility is live, while development of the data halls is scheduled to begin in January 2026.
Dame Dawn Childs DBE FREng, Pure DC CEO, said, “Amsterdam is one of Europe’s most constrained markets for digital infrastructure and Pure DC has again demonstrated its ability to unlock new low-latency, high-quality capacity.”
The AMS01 campus will consist of three towers and each building will contain 26MW data halls, designed for high-density compute workloads. The site will be powered by a private substation which connects to the 50kV grid and a power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 1.2, in accordance with Dutch efficiency requirements.
The company has secured 100MVA capacity through a private substation and acquired the land on a long leasehold from the Port of Amsterdam. Assembling the site required extended negotiations due to limited land availability, strict permitting requirements and power constraints in the Amsterdam market.
According to a report from Mordor Intelligence, the Netherlands data center market is set to grow from USD 11.25 billion in 2025 to USD 17.85 billion by 2030, at a CAGR of 9.67 percent. IT load capacity is expected to more than double, reaching 2.41 GW by 2030 (CAGR 4.92 percent).
Growth is driven by hyperscale cloud deployments, national AI initiatives, and stricter sustainability requirements. Rising rack power densities from AI workloads are boosting adoption of liquid and immersion cooling, supporting up to 100 kW per rack and enabling advanced heat-recovery solutions.