Czech telecoms firm České Radiokomunikace (CRA) says that it has obtained a building permit to construct a data centre on the outskirts of Prague, in the Zbraslav – Jíloviště area.
Called Prague Gateway DC, it will, CRA claims, be one of the largest and most modern data centres in the region. Construction will begin this summer, with the first clients expected to be able to use the new data centre by the end of 2027.
CRA says it is building the new data centre on its own land, which was previously used to operate AM radio transmitters. Prague Gateway DC will sit on a 56,000 square metre plot. The two-storey facility will offer 26MW across 2,000 racks and twelve data halls with a total floor are of over 4,000 square metres. It will feature four meet-me rooms and two power feeds. The Data Centre Dynamics website says it will aim to support up to 30kW per rack and offer its waste heat for reuse.
Construction is now underway on the first building, which will have a capacity of nearly 700 racks. CRA says it will serve Czech and foreign clients with high power requirements and high operating standards, such as for providing international services with high availability or for training language AI models.
CRA already operates eight data centres in the Czech Republic, including sites in Prague's Žižkov, Strahov, and nearby Cukrák, as well as in Brno, Ostrava, Pardubice, Zlín, and Lužice.
The company suggests that subsequent phases could see the Prague Gateway DC data centre become part of the EU AI Gigafactory project. Announced in February, Data Centre Dynamics says this will see three to five supercomputing clusters built across the continent, each equipped with 100,000 AI chips for training the latest and most complex models. A decision on where the data centres will be located is expected later this year, with a view to operations beginning in 2028.
However, CRA has said that Prague Gateway DC is being developed “regardless of its involvement in the AI Gigafactory project”.
