Indicative investment, across the whole spectrum.

Indicative figures, August 2026, hardware excluding VAT. IT cost per MW varies by more than 3× with density: ~€15–40M/MW for CPU clusters, €75–95M/MW for liquid-cooled accelerated HPC/AI systems; NVMe storage and high-memory nodes exceed €150M/MW. Tier 07 is calibrated on European public procurement 2024–2026, where the mid-segment — the one reachable by a specialist integrator — sits at €12–40M, not at exascale. High volatility on GPUs and memory — firm quotes are valid for 30 days. Final pricing on request.

• 01

  Desktop

  Office, engineering and AI desktop — the entry point on the spectrum.

  €0.7–4k | AI: €3.5–9k

• 02

  Workstation

  CAD, simulation and local training — from a single workstation to multi-GPU builds.

  €4–12k | AI: €12–25k | multi-GPU: €30–90k

• 03

  Rack server

  From service and storage servers to a complete 8-GPU training node.

  €10–60k | storage: €38–331k | 8× GPU: €440–520k

• 04

  Server rack

  A complete rack — from enterprise virtualisation to an AI rack with its own fabric.

  €250–900k | AI: €1.0–3M

• 05

  Rack row

  A departmental cluster or AI pod, with a dedicated parallel file system.

  €1.2–8M

• 06

  Data hall

  An institutional 0.3–1 MW IT system, with the facility engineered alongside it.

  IT: €6–70M | facility: €5.5–15M

• 07

  Supercomputer

  A national-scale or EuroHPC-class programme, from tender documents to acceptance.

  €10–300M

Data-centre construction in Romania — 2026 benchmarks.

Complete facility (structure + MEP), excluding VAT; includes the grid connection, excludes land and IT equipment. Cost per m² is measured against gross built area, not white space — the international $600–1,100/sq ft benchmark is also on gross area, and applying it to the technical floor underestimates the budget several times over. In a small-scale HPC centre the gross-to-white-space ratio reaches 9:1, because plant rooms, UPS, batteries, generator and suppression do not shrink. Below 1 MW, the €/MW metric loses its meaning: the same fixed costs do not fall in proportion to power, and a 0.3 MW facility ends up at ~2.7× the per-MW cost of a hyperscale build. Calibrated on a real project: a 300 kW IT hall built to Tier III standard with liquid cooling, in a ~1,800 m² building, lands at €5.5–8.7M for the facility. Figures are on a July 2026 basis; Romanian construction costs are rising ~10% a year, so facility quotes are issued with 60-day validity and an INS indexation clause. A 20–30% premium applies in Bucharest / Cluj versus secondary cities.