Nebius is expanding its datacentre operations in the US. It plans to upgrade its US-based cloud computing capacity with a new 300 MW datacentre in New Jersey. It also announced a second deployment phase build for its Kansas facility by the end of Q2 2025.
Arkady Volozh, founder and CEO of Nebius, said, “Our first major data center in the US clearly advances our strategic goal of expanding our footprint in the American market as we continue building Nebius into a leading global AI infrastructure provider.
“This site has the potential to host dedicated large-scale instances, and we have considerable flexibility to accelerate our deployment plans as and when we need to. With New Jersey, we now have secured expansion capacity to over 400“ MW. And we are actively reviewing options to extend this pipeline further as we seek to grow aggressively to multiples of where we are today.”
Expansion in the US and Iceland
The new datacentre in New Jersey is being built to Nebius’ own design. It will support customers looking for AI capabilities with maximum efficiency without compromising performance. With so many datacentre operators jumping on the AI bandwagon, meeting both efficiency and performance goals is about a business advantage.
While the eventual goal is a 300 MW capacity, this will be a phased implementation. The first phase will be completed in summer 2025 and will deliver 100 MW. Further phases will depend on customer demand.
The new development phase in Kansas will see additional capacity come online by Q2 2025 with the first phase completing Q1 2025. What is missing from this release is the capacity that this second phase will deliver.
The third part of this announcement is Nebius’ new datacentre being constructed at Keflavik, Iceland. Powered by geothermal energy, the company says the physical deployment and software installation are currently underway. It is expected it to be fully operational and ready for clients by the end of 2025.
Enterprise Times: What does this mean?
Nebius is continuing to accelerate its datacentre plans as it expands capacity worldwide. Like other datacentre operators, Nebius is racing to develop as much infrastructure as possible to meet an insatiable customer appetite.
The challenge is to build enough capacity to satisfy customer demand without ending up with excess capacity. While the datacentre market is buoyant, rising energy prices and tighter regulation in Europe will increase costs. It needs to get space sold to ensure that it can cover those costs and continue to invest.
