ECMWF - Centro Meteo Europeo is a data center operated by ECMWF in Bologna, BO, IT. The facility is currently operational. It sits in the Bologna data-center market on the ENTSOE-IT grid, which DC Hub's Data Center Power Index currently rates AVOID, with an estimated 81.5-month time-to-power. Operators should weigh interconnection risk here — the market screens constrained on grid headroom and time-to-power.
Data Center Power Index verdict for Bologna — the market this facility sits in.
Full DCPI breakdown →DC Hub analyst read on Bologna — the market this facility sits in (full deep-dive →).
Bologna's data center market remains nascent and underdeveloped, with 12 tracked facilities representing zero operational megawatts—a stark indicator of the market's early stage. The operator landscape is highly fragmented, dominated by research and academic institutions: Cineca and ECMWF each operate single facilities, while two unnamed operators each manage two sites. Ehinet Srl rounds out the tracked base with one facility. This composition reflects Bologna's positioning as a secondary Italian hub rather than a primary commercial data center market. The DCPI verdict of AVOID is unambiguous and rooted in structural constraints. An excess-power score of 13/100 signals severe capacity limitations; the market simply cannot reliably provision additional demand without substantial infrastructure upgrades. More critically, the constraint score of 61/100 indicates that existing power…
Published DC Hub data for this location.
DC Hub tracks 52 operating generating units totalling 1,464 MW within about 50 km of Bologna, IT. Generation mix shapes both carbon profile and interconnection options for a site at this location.
Source: Global Energy Monitor unit inventory, operating units only. Counts are units, not plants.
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