Sesterce plans €10B AI data centre campus at former Finnish paper mill
THE SO WHAT
€10B into an AI campus on a shuttered Finnish paper mill is the playbook in miniature—repurpose heavy-industry sites with grid access, cooling, and local political support into compute hubs. If your AI roadmap assumes “just add more cloud,” start mapping where your providers are actually putting steel in the ground and how that ties to your latency and sovereignty constraints.
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