Guernsey
Guernsey has a small commercial data centre base and is only now working out whether it wants more, with no incentives or restrictions on compute found.
AI and compute, place by place
What each country or territory is doing about AI, where its data centres and supercomputers are, and what limits or helps them. 79 places so far, and growing.
Small places count here too. The Channel Islands, the Isle of Man and Gibraltar are all weighing what compute could mean for them, so they come first. Where a fact is only reported, not confirmed, the page says so. Source quality varies and each page shows where its facts came from.
These 17 have fuller policy pages: United Kingdom, European Union, Ireland, United States (federal), Netherlands, Germany, France, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Singapore, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, India, Australia, Canada, China. See also the policy register.
Crown Dependencies
Alderney
Alderney has asked developers whether they are interested in a data centre; the States say no project, developer or site exists.
Isle of Man
The Isle of Man is funding AI adoption and markets a small, Tier III-standard hosting base, but a small grid limits large AI compute.
Jersey
Jersey promotes AI adoption and has established Tier III-class data centres, but nothing was found on new large-scale compute.
British Overseas Territories
Gibraltar
Gibraltar's government backs a privately funded 250MW AI data centre campus announced in 2025, still at an early stage in the sources found.
Europe
Malta
Malta has a 2025 national AI strategy with a compute pillar and hosts a small EuroHPC AI Factory antenna, not large data centres.
Spain
Spain hosts a EuroHPC AI Factory in Barcelona while a draft decree would tie new data centres to renewable supply and EU-based operation.
Austria
Austria has a national AI mission to 2030, an AI service office at the regulator and a planned AI Factory built around an AI-optimised supercomputer.
Belgium
Belgium is a growing data centre market held back by grid connection waits and a patchwork of regional permitting rules.
Bulgaria
Bulgaria has the Discoverer supercomputer and a 90 million euro EuroHPC AI Factory, BRAIN++, that will add a GPU-heavy Discoverer++ and Bulgarian-language models.
Czechia
Czechia has a 2030 AI strategy, the Karolina supercomputer in Ostrava and a new AI Factory, while distributors log about 1 GW of data centre connection requests.
Denmark
Denmark runs the Gefion sovereign AI supercomputer, but its grid operator paused new large connections in spring 2026 because about 60 GW of projects were queuing.
Estonia
Estonia has no single AI statute, relies on action plans and is about to host its first large AI data centre, a 22 MW Nebius installation.
Greece
Greece is building the DAEDALUS supercomputer at Lavrio and has a Pharos AI Factory, under a national AI strategy now in implementation.
Iceland
Iceland offers near-fully renewable power for AI data centres and is expanding substations and long-term supply contracts.
Italy
Italy has the first dedicated national AI law among EU members, a EuroHPC AI Factory in Bologna and a grid queue of about 95 GW of data centre requests.
Lithuania
Lithuania won EuroHPC backing for LitAI, a 130 million euro AI factory said to be the only facility of its scale in the Baltic states.
Luxembourg
Luxembourg runs the MeluXina supercomputer, is adding the AI-optimised MeluXina-AI and is reserving grid capacity far above current data centre use.
Poland
Poland is building two EuroHPC AI Factories and planning its grid around a tenfold rise in data centre demand, while its AI law is still a draft.
Portugal
Portugal has a new national AI agenda, the Deucalion supercomputer and the Sines campus, a 1.2 GW AI data centre site that is already operating its first phase.
Romania
Romania is building the RO AI Factory under EuroHPC and developers are scouting 50 to 200 MW sites, with power and permits as the deciding factors.
Switzerland
Switzerland has no AI law yet, runs the Alps supercomputer at CSCS and faces a sharp rise in data centre power demand.
Türkiye
Türkiye has adopted an AI Action Plan to 2030 that aims to mobilise at least 10 billion US dollars for data centres and AI infrastructure through growth zones and sandboxes.
Ukraine
Ukraine is regulating AI in two stages, soft tools first and an EU-style law later, and has only just begun exploring a sovereign AI data centre.
Americas
Brazil
Brazil has a funded national AI plan, a growing public supercomputer and a new tax regime to pull data centres in.
Mexico
Mexico is announcing a very large public supercomputer and courting data centres, but the president ties support to electricity being available.
Argentina
Argentina is using its large-investment incentive regime to attract a proposed 500 MW OpenAI-linked campus in Patagonia.
Chile
Chile has a dedicated National Data Centres Plan to 2030, faster permitting and the region's most developed data centre market in Santiago.
Colombia
Colombia has a funded AI policy that names data centres and supercomputing, but a small data centre base and an energy bottleneck.
Uruguay
Uruguay combines a 2024-2030 AI strategy and a mostly renewable grid with Google's Canelones data centre and a new state AI data centre.
Peru
Peru has a risk-based AI regulation in force since January 2026, but it says nothing specific about data centres or compute.
Costa Rica
Costa Rica has a 2024-2027 AI strategy focused on ethics, skills and public services, with no compute or data centre provisions in what we read.
Panama
Panama's new AI strategy aims to make it the region's trusted AI hub, building on cable connectivity and existing data centres.
Paraguay
Paraguay created discounted power tariffs for AI data centres in February 2026 and is pitching its hydropower to AI builders.
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic's 2023 AI strategy puts infrastructure first and calls for more national and regional data centre capacity.
Jamaica
Jamaica has no AI law yet; a national task force is preparing its first AI policy, with public consultation due from 11 September 2026.
Ecuador
Ecuador published a 2025-2029 AI strategy in January 2026, and Telconet plans a Quito AI hub scaling to 100 MW by 2028.
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago signed preliminary agreements in July 2026 for up to 800 MW of data centres, with water and power still to be solved.
El Salvador
El Salvador's May 2026 AI strategy centres on a sovereign data centre on geothermal power and a single AI regulator.
Asia-Pacific and Middle East
Japan
Japan has a promotion-first AI law, a government AI Basic Plan and a joint power-and-network programme to site data centres, plus an open national AI supercomputer.
United Arab Emirates
The UAE is building very large AI capacity in Abu Dhabi, helped by a July 2026 US decision to treat it as a trusted destination for advanced chips.
Malaysia (Johor)
Malaysia has frozen new data centres that are not AI-related, and Johor has stopped approving basic-tier facilities, while AI-linked builds continue.
Thailand
Thailand has paused data centre approvals and some construction while it drafts national minimum standards and a higher power tariff.
Vietnam
Vietnam now has a standalone AI law and a digital technology law that prioritise data centres, while power supply is the stated constraint.
Taiwan
Taiwan passed an AI Basic Act in December 2025, and the practical limit on AI data centres is regional grid and substation capacity, not total electricity.
Indonesia
Indonesia has no AI law yet, requires government systems to store data in-country, and is expanding data centre capacity.
Hong Kong
Hong Kong runs a public AI supercomputing centre and has a very large government-backed data facility cluster under construction.
Qatar
Qatar has an older national AI strategy and a new USD 20 billion state-backed AI infrastructure venture with Brookfield.
Israel
Israel approved a national AI programme in June 2026, then froze new data centre grid connections for 140 days after requests reached 27,000MW.
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan has an AI law and a Digital Code, a national H200 supercomputer in the world top 100 and a gigawatt-scale data centre planned in Pavlodar.
New Zealand
New Zealand takes a light-touch approach to AI regulation and has a 280MW AI data centre approved in Southland.
Africa
South Africa
Africa's largest data centre market has no national AI policy after the draft was withdrawn, and power access is the stated limit on growth.
Kenya
Kenya has an AI strategy and localisation rules for strategic data, but its flagship 1 GW geothermal data centre is stalled over power.
Nigeria
Nigeria has the fastest-growing AI data centre pipeline in West Africa but self-generates its power, and a localisation bill is pending.
Egypt
Egypt is licensing data centres on 15-year terms and plans a national GPU data centre, while personal data rules tighten from November 2026.
Morocco
Morocco is positioning as a sovereign African data centre hub, with Africa's best-documented university supercomputer and a 500 MW Dakhla project announced.
Rwanda
Rwanda defaults to keeping personal data in the country and has just approved a national AI agency with a national data centre.
Ghana
Ghana has no data localisation rule and no AI law, and hosts a Tier IV data centre in Accra.
Ethiopia
Ethiopia sells cheap hydropower to crypto-mining data centres and moved data centre licensing to the communications regulator.
Tanzania
Tanzania's first carrier-neutral Tier III data centre is due in 2026, and all data controllers had to register by 8 April 2026.
Côte d'Ivoire
Côte d'Ivoire named data centres and sovereign cloud as priorities in its March 2025 AI strategy, and Raxio already operates there.
Mauritius
Mauritius adopted a National AI Strategy by February 2026 and is amending its Data Protection Act to align with the EU.