Proposals have been submitted for a new data center in the city of Reșița, western Romania.

Overseen by developer Reșița Data Infrastructure, the facility will be located in an industrial park northeast of the city and directly adjacent to a 400/220/110kV substation.

The firm has confirmed to DCD that the data center will occupy a 30,000 sqm (322,915 sq ft) plot, and that the municipality has now assembled a working group to study the firm’s grid connection request. No construction permits have been issued for the project, and its compute capacity has yet to be confirmed.

Partnerships with investors for the project are now actively being sought, said Reșița Data Infrastructure’s founder, Marius Hudișteanu. “The Reșița project targets the strategic gap in digital infrastructure within Western Romania,” Hudișteanu told DCD. “By leveraging the existing 400kV node, we are building a high-density environment designed to attract Tier 1 global operators and drive regional industrial modernization. It's a foundational step for the local tech ecosystem.”

The project has been in development since October 2024, according to Reșița Data Infrastructure’s website, when the city’s mayor, Ioan Papa, signed a confidentiality agreement with Hudișteanu to begin organising the development of a data center on behalf of the municipality.

Shortly afterwards, a site near a substation operated by the national grid operator Transelectrica was identified. In March 2026, a strategic partnership agreement was signed by Hudișteanu and the Municipality of Reșița, with the latter initiating the formal allocation process for the land required for the data center the following month.

If built, the data center at Reșița would be the city’s first. Currently, the closest notable market exists 59 miles to the northeast in the city of Timișoara, which hosts ten facilities according to DataCenterMap. Interest has grown in Romania generally as a data center market in recent months.

In April, Chinese industrial manufacturer Sany International announced plans to fund the construction of a 70MW data center in Timișoara. Earlier this month, meanwhile, the city of Cluj-Napoca announced its intentions to build a municipal data center to accelerate its own digitalization agenda.

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