Overview
- Microsoft will develop the site over the next few years at Start Campus’s data‑center park about 150 kilometers south of Lisbon.
- The project teams Microsoft with Start Campus, Nscale and NVIDIA to deploy 12,600 next‑generation NVIDIA GPUs.
- Sines was selected for transatlantic subsea cable routes and a pipeline of renewable‑energy projects intended to power energy‑intensive facilities.
- Start Campus separately plans €8.5 billion of investment through 2030 at the campus, with one of six planned buildings already in operation.
- Microsoft also signed a multi‑year capacity lease at Sines in October, reinforcing a broader European AI infrastructure expansion driven by surging demand for accelerator compute since 2022.