The Finland Data Center Market Size, Share, Trends, & Investments By IT Infrastructure, Electrical Infrastructure, Mechanical Infrastructure, Cooling Systems, General Construction, & Tier Standard.

Finland Data Center Market - Investment Analysis & Growth Opportunities 2026-2031

FINLAND DATA CENTER MARKET SIZE & OUTLOOK

The Finland data center market size was valued at USD 952 million in 2025 and is expected to reach USD 5.81 billion by 2031, growing at a CAGR of 35.18% during the forecast period. Finland is emerging as one of the fastest-growing data center markets in Nordic region, it is holding a significant market share in the Nordic region. The country’s strong push for digital transformation, along with the widespread adoption of IoT and big data, has fueled major investments among data centers.

As of March 2025, Finland currently hosted around 12 operational submarine cables such as Baltic Sea Submarine Cable, BCS North - Phase 2, E-FINEST, Eastern Light Sweden-Finland I, STO-HEL-One among others. The country continues to witness investment in around three more new submarine cables, which are expected to become operational by 2027.

In January 2026, GlobalConnect announced that it had launched a major project of its Nordic backbone network to triple data capacity across around 1,250 km of fiber cables in the Nordic region, including Stockholm in Sweden, Oslo in Norway, and Helsinki in Finland, with a total investment of around $47.3 million. Additionally, the project is expected to become operational in 2027.

The Finland government announced that it has investment around $11.8 million per year from 2025 to 2028. Additionally, around 7 million invest to establish the ELLIS Institute Finland, a major AI research hub in the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems. It aimed to boosting machine learning and AI innovation across the country.

Helsinki is the leading data center destination in the country. It continues to be Finland’s leading hub for data center expansion, marked by a concentrated growth in advanced facilities. There are around 11 existing and one upcoming data center in Helsinki.

FINLAND DATA CENTER MARKET - KEY HIGHLIGHTS

1. Finland became one of the most attractive destinations for data center investments in 2025 in the Nordic region, driven by the accelerating adoption of cloud services. Government sector, private sector, enterprises, and startups are increasingly leveraging cloud platforms to support their digital transformation initiatives, allowing them to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, as well as innovate with emerging technologies such as AI and machine learning (ML).
2. In February 2025, DNA Plc, a Finnish telco, announced to migrate 100 core applications and other workloads from on-premises infrastructure to Google Cloud using Google Distributed Cloud to meet the data residency requirements in Finland. The company stated that non-critical workloads will be hosted at Google’s Hamina data center, and the company will adopt services, including BigQuery, and Google Kubernetes Engine to enhance innovation and efficiency.
3. We observe that the demand of AI ready data center is growing and data center operators showing interest in building AI-ready data centers. For instance, in October 2025, Scale4 announced that it has plans to build an AI-ready data center in Kitee, Finland. Additionally, construction is expected to begin in 2026 with the facility becoming operational by late 2027 or early 2028.
4. In Finland data center operator are showing interest towards sustainability, data center operator signed renewable PPA for its data center operations.
5. The Finland government announced that it has investment around $11.8 million per year from 2025 to 2028. Additionally, around 7 million invest to establish the ELLIS Institute Finland, a major AI research hub in the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems. It aimed at boosting machine learning and AI innovation across the country.

WHY SHOULD YOU BUY THIS RESEARCH?

1. Market size available in the investment, area, power capacity, and Finland colocation market revenue.
2. An assessment of the data center investment in Finland by colocation, hyperscale, and enterprise operators.
3. Data center investments in the area (square feet) and power capacity (MW) across cities in the country.
4. A detailed study of the existing Finland data center market landscape, an in-depth industry analysis, and insightful predictions about the Finland data center market size during the forecast period.
5. Snapshot of existing and upcoming third-party data center facilities in Finland
6. Facilities Covered (Existing): 24
7. Facilities Identified (Upcoming):28
8. Coverage: 10+ Locations
9. Existing vs. Upcoming (Data Center Area)
10. Existing vs. Upcoming (IT Load Capacity)
11. Data center colocation market in Finland
12. Colocation Market Revenue & Forecast (2022-2031)
13. Retail & Wholesale Colocation Revenue (2022-2031)
14. Retail & Wholesale Colocation Pricing
15. Finland data center landscape market investments are classified into IT, power, cooling, and general construction services with sizing and forecast.
16. A comprehensive analysis of the latest trends, growth rate, potential opportunities, growth restraints, and prospects for the industry.
17. Business overview and product offerings of prominent IT infrastructure providers, construction contractors, support infrastructure providers, and investors operating in the industry.
18. A transparent research methodology and the analysis of the demand and supply aspect of the market.

FINLAND DATA CENTER MARKET VENDOR LANDSCAPE

1. The Finland data center market has the presence of several major colocation data center operators, including atNorth, Borealis Data Center, Elisa, Equinix, Telia Finland, and Verne.
2. The Finland data center market is witnessing announcements and investments from several new operators such as, Arcem, Bitzero Holdings, DayOne, Meta, Edgnex Data Centres By DAMAC, Microsoft, Polarnode, Prime Data Centers, QTS, Scale42 and STORESPEED and others.
3. In January 2026, Prime Data Centers announced that it is planning to construct an AI-ready data center outside Helsinki, with a total investment of around $2 billion with construction expecting to be started in 2027.
4. The cloud market in Finland is expected to continue experiencing significant growth in the forecast period. Major global cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, and Oracle Cloud have provided cloud on ramp services. Additionally, Google has one cloud regions and Microsoft is planning cloud regions in Helsinki, Finland.
5. The Finland data center market has the presence of several major IT infrastructure vendors including, Arista Networks, Atos, Cisco, Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Huawei Technologies, NVIDIA and others.
6. The Finland center market has the presence of global as well as local data center construction contractor & sub-contractors, such as AFRY, Bravida, Caverion,, Fluor Corporation, Haskoning, Kirby Group Engineering, Mercury, Olla Architecture, Ramboll, Sundstrom, Sweco, among others.

EXISTING VS. UPCOMING DATA CENTERS

1. Existing Facilities in the region (Area and Power Capacity)
2. Helsinki
3. Other Cities
4. List of Upcoming Facilities in the region (Area and Power Capacity)
5. Helsinki
6. Other Cities

REPORT COVERAGE:

This report analyses the Finland data center market share. It elaboratively analyses the existing and upcoming facilities and investments in IT, electrical, mechanical infrastructure, cooling systems, general construction, and tier standards. It discusses market sizing and investment estimation for different segments. The segmentation includes:

1. IT Infrastructure
2. Server Infrastructure
3. Storage Infrastructure
4. Network Infrastructure
5. Electrical Infrastructure
6. UPS Systems
7. Generators
8. Switches & Switchgears
9. PDUs
10. Other Electrical Infrastructure
11. Mechanical Infrastructure
12. Cooling Systems
13. Rack Cabinets
14. Other Mechanical Infrastructure
15. Cooling Systems
16. CRAC and CRAH
17. Chillers
18. Cooling Towers, Condensers and Dry Coolers
19. Other Cooling Units
20. General Construction
21. Core & Shell Development
22. Installation & commissioning Services
23. Building & Engineering Design
24. Fire Detection & Suppression Systems
25. Physical Security
26. Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM)
27. Tier Standard
28. Tier I & Tier II
29. Tier III
30. Tier IV

VENDOR LANDSCAPE

1. IT INFRASTRUCTURE PROVIDERS: Arista Networks, Atos, Cisco, Dell Technologies, Extreme Networks, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Huawei Technologies, IBM, NEC, NVIDIA, and Oracle
2. DATA CENTER CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTORS & SUB-CONTRACTORS: AFRY, Bravida, Caverion, Destia Oy, Fluor Corporation, Granlund Group, Haskoning, Kirby Group Engineering, Mercury, NCC, Olla Architecture, Ramboll, RED Engineering Design, Sundstrom, Sweco, Winthrop Technologies and YIT
3. SUPPORT INFRASTRUCTURE PROVIDERS: ABB, Airedale by Modine, Caterpillar, Cummins, Delta Electronics, Eaton, HITEC Power Protection, Legrand, Rittal, Schneider Electric, STULZ, Trane and Vertiv.
4. DATA CENTER INVESTORS: atNorth, Borealis Data Center, Elisa, Equinix, Google, Telia Finland, Verne
5. NEW ENTRANTS: Arcem, Asp Data Center, Bitzero Holdings, Compute Nordic, DayOne, Edgnex Data Centres By DAMAC, Meta, Microsoft, Polarnode, Prime Data Centers , Pure Data Centres Group, QTS Data Centers, Scale42 and STORESPEED