Project record, campus
Microsoft data centre (Bornasco, Pavia)
Microsoft is building a data centre in Bornasco, about 25 km south of Milan, part of its October 2024 commitment of EUR 4.3 billion for cloud and AI infrastructure in Italy. Renderings show two buildings and 50 MW of backup generators on site. DCD reports that the size of the data centres has not been shared.
Reported figures
No figures are published for this record. Not disclosed is not zero.
Each figure is shown as reported, with its own definition. IT, facility, grid and thermal figures are never added together. Capacity definitions.
Power and grid
50 MW of on-site backup generators (generator rating, not data centre capacity). datacenterdynamics.com (opens in a new tab)
What changed
- 5 Feb 2026 Construction under way datacenterdynamics.com (opens in a new tab)
Sources (1), last checked 19 Oct 2026
- Microsoft starts construction of data center in Bornasco, Italy (opens in a new tab), DatacenterDynamics, published 5 Feb 2026, accessed 19 Oct 2026
Last checked 19 Oct 2026 by CoolPower Index research (automated, sourced). Report a correction.