Industrial manufacturer Sany International has plans to fund the construction of a 70MW data center in Timișoara, in western Romania.

The project, known as ‘Sany Timis,’ will see the firm partner with the Romanian renewable energy developer Danube Solar Seven SRL, according to the Romanian publication Profit.ro, which broke the story.

The facility will be accompanied by a battery energy storage system (BESS), with two solar plants producing 800MW each, also set to be built in the commune of Uivar, southwest of Timișoara.

DCD has approached Sany International for comment.

Sany International is a subsidiary of Sany Group, a heavy equipment manufacturing company based in China’s Hunan province. The latter firm will supply the solar panels used at the Uivar power plant.

The investment by Sany International in the combined project is estimated by Profit.ro to be €1 billion ($1.17bn). The deal follows the firm’s acquisition in September 2025 of a 95MW solar plant in Dobrești commune, in southeastern Romania.

Founded in 1989, Sany Group is primarily known for manufacturing heavy industrial vehicles such as cranes, loading trucks, and excavators.

The Chinese industrial conglomerate's previous interactions with the data center industry were limited to its provision of vehicles to construction companies.

Last month, China Daily reported that Sany Americas, the group’s US-based subsidiary, sold several of its SY500H heavy-duty excavators to support a single project.

Romania currently hosts 64 data centers, according to DataCenterMap, making it the second-largest market in Eastern Europe after Poland.

Unlike its northern neighbor, however, Romania has only seen one other major project announced in the past year: the construction of a new 800MW campus by investment company Accelerated Infrastructure Capital (AIC) in Mischii, in the country’s southeast.

The Romanian government has also called for expressions of interest in a proposed AI ‘gigafactory’ with 1.5GW of computing power. That facility would be centred around Romania’s only nuclear power plant in the town of Cernavodă, Constanța County, also in the southeast.

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