Telia Lietuva Breaks Ground on €26 Million AI-Ready Data Center in Vilnius
March 6, 2026
Telia Lietuva, a leading Baltic telecommunications operator, has commenced construction on a major new data center in the Vilnius district, marking a significant investment in Lithuania's digital backbone. The move underscores the intensifying demand for robust, local data infrastructure, particularly to support the computational needs of artificial intelligence and to ensure national data sovereignty.
The groundbreaking ceremony for the facility, located in the village of Rejsztaniszki, signals the start of a €26 million (approximately $30.1 million) project developed by Conres LT and slated for completion in 2027. Spanning a two-hectare site, the data center is designed to eventually accommodate up to 800 server racks. It will be constructed in modular phases, with each module housing 200 racks. The initial phase involves the assembly of two modules.
In a statement, Giedre Kaminskaitė-Salters, CEO of Telia Lietuva and Head of Baltics for parent company Telia, emphasized the project's strategic importance. "This €26 million project will be connected to two existing Telia data centers, creating a highly reliable infrastructure network for Lithuanian businesses," she said. "The new center will meet the rapidly growing demand driven by AI and will enable strategically important data to be stored in Lithuania: securely, sustainably, and reliably."
Upon completion, the Rejsztaniszki site will become Telia's third data center in Lithuania, interconnected with the others via fiber-optic cables to enhance network resilience. In a unique operational model, Telia plans to sell the completed site and then lease it back from the buyer.
The facility is poised to set a regional sustainability benchmark, aiming to become the first in the Baltics to achieve a BREEAM certification. It will be powered entirely by renewable energy and will integrate a waste heat recovery system, channeling excess thermal energy into a local district heating network—a practice Telia has successfully advanced at other sites, such as its Helsinki data center where recovery rates reached 90%.
The development reflects a broader trend in Central and Eastern Europe, where investments in next-generation data centers are accelerating to cater to digital transformation and AI-driven workloads, while prioritizing energy efficiency and local economic benefits.
Source: datacenterdynamics
