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Electricity
April 2, 2026
Powering Belgium's Digital Future
The need for an electrical infrastructure for data centers in Belgium due to stricter regulations, sustainability goals, and investment requirements.
Belgium finds itself at a crossroads in terms of its electricity infrastructure, which directly threatens its competitive position in the European AI economy. While demand for data center capacity is growing exponentially, transmission and distribution networks are grappling with structural capacity constraints that require years of preparation—and at the same time, regulations, sustainability goals, and investment requirements are becoming increasingly stringent.
The figures speak for themselves: data centers currently consume 5% of Europe’s electricity—in Ireland, that figure is already over 20%—and new connections in the Brussels-Antwerp-Ghent corridor have wait times of 2 to 4 years. The time to make the right decisions is now—because those who make the right electrical infrastructure choices today will lead the digital economy of 2030; waiting means congestion, higher energy costs, and permit bottlenecks.
Want to learn more? Contact Wim.boone@ingenium.be or download the white paper here.
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