28 November 2025 – Arcadis (EURONEXT: ARCAD) today announced that its recently acquired subsidiary, KUA, has secured four significant data center project wins in Germany this month, underscoring the company’s expanding presence in one of Europe’s fastest-growing digital infrastructure markets.
The combined value of the wins is EUR €8 million, with Arcadis and KUA providing core services covering technical due diligence, zoning and permitting, tender preparation and construction monitoring for new hyperscale and colocation developments.
Spanning Frankfurt and Berlin, the new projects reflect the continued momentum in Germany’s digital corridor as investors and operators accelerate plans for additional capacity across Europe.
These latest wins bring the total number of data center projects Arcadis is involved in to 229 globally, supporting the delivery of more than 15 Giga Watts of energy—enough to power over 11 million average homes continuously and equivalent to the new wind energy capacity installed across the whole of Europe in 2024.
The services being provided include:
- Technical Due Diligence: De-risking investment decisions by analysing site constraints, utilities, regulatory pathways, and power availability.
- Zoning and permitting: Preparing compliant design and documentation to streamline approvals.
- Permit application design: Developing early-stage design packages aligned with local requirements.
- Tender preparation: Assembling contractor procurement and tender documentation to support efficient project mobilization.
- Construction monitoring: Providing ongoing oversight during construction to track progress, verify quality, and ensure compliance.
Global demand for new data center capacity is rising, with the market expected to reach USD 1 trillion by 2030. Major technology companies are announcing unprecedented investment, and growth in cloud adoption, AI, and regulatory requirements is driving a surge in both new builds and expansions across the sector.
As organisations race to bring capacity online, they face a complex environment involving power constraints, sustainability obligations, planning regulations, and pressure to deliver at speed and scale. These challenges play directly to Arcadis’ strengths in early-stage advisory, technical due diligence, permitting, engineering design, and project delivery.
The new KUA-led projects reflect growing demand for expertise in due diligence, informed site selection, and early-stage design that reduces program risk. In today’s high-growth market, where the “race for space” is intensifying, identifying feasible, low-risk, and scalable locations has become essential to securing competitive advantage.
Alan Brookes, CEO of Arcadis, said: "These wins reflect the strength of our strategy in Europe and the value created by combining KUA’s specialist data center capabilities in architecture, design, engineering, and planning with Arcadis’ global expertise in site selection, program and cost management, and sustainability advisory.
“With the total data centre market estimated at around 300 billion euros — and design and engineering firms typically capturing 10 to 15% — this represents a multi-billion-euro opportunity for us and highlights the buoyancy of the sector and the bespoke solutions we can offer. As demand accelerates, clients need partners who can navigate complexity and deliver at speed. By uniting cutting-edge design, due diligence, and local insight, we are well positioned to shape the next generation of smarter, greener, more efficient data centers.”
