Our main
5
benefits
more good reasons to invest in Wallonia
Favourable business environment :
6
business parks
1 Louvain-la-Neuve
Mons
Charleroi
Namur
Liège
Wallonia
competitiveness clusters
Paris
4,200 acres
of buildable commercial land
the first Google designed, owned and operated data center
Warsaw
outside the US. We chose St. Ghislain because of the available infrastructure including land, power, industrial canal water, and
Luxembourg Frankfurt
fibre connectivity. The central location in the heart of Europe,
Prague
and the local technical university added to the appeal.
Strasbourg
To-date, Google has spent a total of EUR 775 million on the construction and operation of the data center in St. Ghislain.
Vienna
The vast majority of the construction and operations have taken
Milan Berlin 80’
3 2
7
are from Belgium. Wallonia is a good business environment for
Universities
Science parks
R&D in Life Sciences
place in Belgium, and 60% of those employed in the data center
80
Google, and we look forward to being here for many years to
Madrid
come. “ Spin offs
Andrew Hyland
Istanbul
Community Relations Manager, Data Centers, Europe
Economy open to the world : Frankfurt 60’
Paris 90’
Brussels
“We opened our St. Ghislain data center in October 2010. It was
Amsterdam
R&D Culture :
Amsterdam 120’
Brussels
Copenhagen
Dublin
London
200
4
Stockholm
Brussels European institutions Multinationals headquarters
4 hours by road
A highly-qualified workforce Advantageous taxation
5
Oslo
400 million consumers
Numerous plots of land available Low operating costs
Lille 60’
Helsinki
Located at the centre of economic Europe :
Ultra-fast connection Ideal weather condition Low earthquake risk
London 150’
They chose Wa l l o n i a
WAL=70% EU=30%
6
% of average export turnover
«ENGIE Cofely has decided to base its first commercial data centre in Gembloux, at the heart of Wallonia. Our objective is
* From Brussels Strasbourg 60’
to offer our customer a green, agile data centre connected to
Quality of life :
the main European platforms. This investment of over 32 million
DATA CENTRES
Luxembourg 100’
Multicultural/Welcoming Region
INVEST IN WALLONIA Namur Office Park Avenue des Dessus de Lives, 6 B-5101 Loyers (Namur) - Belgium Tel. : +32 81 33 28 50 www.investinwallonia.be
Healthcare sector
Culture/Gastronomy
Nature
choose Wallonia !
euros gives companies all the flexibility they need. In this period of growing digitalisation, ENGIE Cofely believes in the development potential of Wallonia in the IT sector and is proud to be able to contribute to it.»
Nicolas Coppée Data Center Manager