Real estate companies Greykite and White Star Real Estate say that their joint venture has successfully converted a former logistics facility in Warsaw into a state-of-the-art data centre, now known as Digital Ursus and claimed to be Poland’s largest data centre.
Launched last year, Greykite is an independent European real estate investment firm established and headquartered in London. White Star Real Estate is an international real estate company active in Central and Eastern Europe since 1997.
The two companies launched a US$339 million Polish logistics and data centre joint venture last year. It took over three sites (in Warsaw, Gliwice, and Strykow) that White Star had developed under its Diamond Business Park brand. The Ursus site was built by White Star between 2013 and 2019.
The reported site transformation includes a significant upgrade in power capacity, increasing from 18 MW to an anticipated 65 MW within the next year. This enhancement, the partners say, positions Digital Ursus as a critical node in Europe's expanding digital landscape.
This 20,000 square metre facility, strategically located just eight kilometres from downtown Warsaw and six kilometres from Chopin Airport, has secured a long-term lease with a leading global data centre operator, believed to be EdgeConneX, which, the Data Centre Dynamic website reports, has signed a 15-year lease.
The site adds that EdgeConneX, in turn, is reportedly leasing the site for use by one of the ‘five largest tech companies’ globally and is to invest hundreds of millions of euros into the project. The company currently operates 2.5MW of capacity and 1,400 square metres of data centre space across three facilities in Warsaw.
Poland's data centre market in general – and Warsaw in particular – is experiencing rapid growth, with projections indicating a tripling of power resources by 2030.