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Digital Realty Approved for Sixth Data Center in Marseille, France

Mar 11, 2026 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Digital Realty has received approval to build its sixth data center in Marseille, France. The company plans to convert a 26,000 sqm (279,861 sq ft) warehouse in Bouc-Bel-Air, just north of Marseille, into a data center.

Digital Realty first announced plans for the data center in 2023, noting the site would provide 50MW of capacity. The company intends to invest €700 million ($811 million) to convert the building to house seven data halls.

With server racks at the data center set to require 120kW each, presumably to host AI workloads, Digital Realty plans to install a new high-voltage power supply. This will run from power company RTE’s Realtor substation in Cabriès, and supply 225,000 volts to a substation at the data center.

It now operates a number of other data centers in Marseille, with MRS2, 3, and 4 all within 500m of the new site. MRS3, opened in 2020, is located in a former WWII submarine base. MRS4, located nearby, launched in late 2022. The three facilities all utilize river cooling.

Digital Realty said last year it intends to spend an additional $5.5 billion on new data centers in Paris and Marseille, making the commitment at an international AI summit hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron.

Digital Realty Trust has 279 sites in 55 regions.

120 E Van Buren
Posted in 120 E Van Buren - Digital Realty Source: www.digitalrealty.com
120 E Van Buren Outside
Posted in 120 E Van Buren - Digital Realty Source: www.digitalrealty.com
Outside of 350 E Cermak
Posted in Digital Realty: ORD10 |
Aerial View of Digital Realty's Ashburn Campus
Posted in Digital Realty Loudoun Ashburn Campus |
Looking Up
Posted in Westin Building Seattle |
Telecom Nerve Center
Posted in Westin Building Seattle |
Exterior View
Posted in Digital Profile Park Dublin Source: Cundall
Data Center Room at DRT's Profile Park
Posted in Digital Profile Park Dublin Source: Cundall
Overhead view of the four building campus at Profile Park.
4 Building Site Plan
Posted in Digital Profile Park Dublin |
Exterior View
Posted in 56 Marietta Carrier Hotel - Digital Realty |
56 Marietta with Telx Signage
Posted in 56 Marietta Carrier Hotel - Digital Realty |
Exterior of 600 West 7th
Posted in 600 W 7th St, Los Angeles - Digital Realty |
Rendering of DRT's planned 12-story Data Center at 330 East Cermak
Posted in Digital Realty: ORD10 Source: Digital Realty Trust
424-Acre Lot to the West of Dulles Airport
Posted in Digital Realty Dulles Expansion Source: CBRE
MWAA Aerial View of 424-Acre Parcel
Posted in Digital Realty Dulles Expansion Source: Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority
Meeting Space Inside Digital's TOR1 Toronto site
Posted in 1 Century Place (TOR1) Digital Realty |
Digital's new Toronto Site was Formerly the Toronto Star Printing Facility
Posted in 1 Century Place (TOR1) Digital Realty |
Lit Signage at Night
Posted in 200 Paul (SFR1) Digital Realty |
Exterior View
Posted in 200 Paul (SFR1) Digital Realty |
200 Paul After Renovation
Posted in 200 Paul (SFR1) Digital Realty |
Digital Realty's Piscataway Campus
Posted in 3 Corporate - Digital Realty |
Front Gate
Posted in 505 N Railroad Ave - Digital Realty Source: Digital Realty Trust
Overhead at Twilight
Posted in 505 N Railroad Ave - Digital Realty Source: CBRE
Equipment Yard
Posted in 505 N Railroad Ave - Digital Realty Source: CBRE
Substation on the Property
Posted in 505 N Railroad Ave - Digital Realty |
Switch Gear
Posted in 505 N Railroad Ave - Digital Realty |
Exterior View
Posted in 1 Olivers Yard - Digital Realty |
Lobby
Posted in 1 Olivers Yard - Digital Realty |
Exterior View
Posted in Digital Realty: LHR26 Source: Google Maps
Exterior Entrance
Posted in 2260 E El Segundo - Digital Realty Source: DRT
Inside a DRT Colo Room at 2260
Posted in 2260 E El Segundo - Digital Realty |
Digital Chandler
Posted in 2121 S Price - Digital Realty |
Digital Realty’s data center in Chandler, Arizona, is at the southern edge of Phoenix’s sprawl, near a massive Intel plant, and companies like Orbital ATK and Iridium. It is one of the largest in A...
DRT Chandler
Posted in 2121 S Price - Digital Realty Source: Center for Land Use Interpretation
Exterior View
Posted in 1 Olivers Yard - Digital Realty |
Exterior of the Sovereign House Data Centre
Posted in Digital Sovereign House (227 Marsh Wall) |
Front Entrance
Posted in Digital Meridian Gate (215 Marsh) |
Digital Realty Trust's campus in North Houston contains several other colocation providers including Level3 and Sungard.
Satellite View of Digital Houston Campus
Posted in 12001-12235 North Freeway - Digital Realty Source: Google Maps
Exterior Corner
Posted in Digital Realty: Silicon Valley SJC10 Source: DRT
Located in the heart of Silicon Valley near Highway 101, this data center is strategically placed on major fiber routes and near three cost-effective sub-stations of the power grids of Silicon Vall...
Exterior of 1201 Comstock
Posted in Digital Realty: SJC15 Source: DRT
Exterior of 3011 Lafayette
Posted in Digital Realty: SJC11 Source: DRT
365 Main with the Old AboveNet Logo
Posted in 365 Main (SFR2) Digital Realty |
The 360 Spear data center is also pictured next to the 365 Main data center. Both buildings are owned by Digital Realty Trust
365 Main with the Bay Bridge in the Background
Posted in 365 Main (SFR2) Digital Realty |
Entrance to 2805 Lafayette Street in Santa Clara
Posted in Digital Realty: SJC31 Source: DRT
Exterior of 720 2nd Street in Oakland
Posted in 720 2nd - Digital Realty |
Aerial View of 720 2nd and Port of Oakland
Posted in 720 2nd - Digital Realty |
Lobby
Posted in 720 2nd - Digital Realty |
Interxion PAR7 from the Air
Posted in Digital Realty: Paris PAR7 |
View of PAR7 from Rue Rateau
Posted in Digital Realty: Paris PAR7 |
Digital Realty's Data Center in Needham
Posted in 105 Cabot - Digital Realty Source: DRT
Diagram shows the locations of FRA1 to FRA15
Map of Interxion's Buildings on their Frankfurt Campus
Posted in Digital Realty Frankfurt Campus |
Interxion Frankfurt FRA15
Posted in Digital Realty Frankfurt Campus |
Exterior of Digital Jurong Facility
Posted in Digital Jurong: 29A International Business Park - Digital Realty Source: DRT
Digital Realty's Singapore Data Center at 29A International Business Park
Posted in Digital Jurong: 29A International Business Park - Digital Realty Source: Street View
8th Floor Layout
Posted in Westin Building Seattle Source: westinbuilding.com
Digital Loyang SIN11
Posted in Digital Realty Singapore Loyang |
Facility was announced in January 2019 and will be completed in 2020
Rendering of Digital Loyang2
Posted in Digital Realty Singapore Loyang 2 Source: DRT
Fancy Rendering of forthcoming ZUR2
Posted in Digital Realty: Zurich Source: InterXion
Entrance of ZUR1
Posted in Digital Realty: Zurich |
Exterior of AMS8
Posted in Digital Realty: AMS8 Source: InterXion
Entrance Gate AMS8
Posted in Digital Realty: AMS8 Source: InterXion
AMS8 Customer Lobby
Posted in Digital Realty: AMS8 Source: InterXion
ACC3 Layout
Posted in 44520 Hastings (ACC3) Digital Realty Source: DRT
Location of Building J on Campus
Posted in 44100 Digital Loudoun Plaza (Bldg J) Source: DRT
Outside of Building J
Posted in 44100 Digital Loudoun Plaza (Bldg J) Source: DRT
Satellite view of the Digital Realty Trust's new building and its proximity to Equinix Ashburn, and Cologix's new site
DRT Acquired 21780 Filigree in May 2019
Posted in Digital Realty: IAD-56 |
Westin MMR
Posted in Westin Building Seattle |
24th Floor Layout
Posted in Westin Building Seattle Source: westinbuilding.com
Lobby of the Westin
Posted in Westin Building Seattle Source: Clise Properties
Westin's Dual 500 KVA UPS Distribution System
Posted in Westin Building Seattle Source: WBX
The WBX Makes its Conference Room Available to Tenants Upon Request
Posted in Westin Building Seattle Source: WBX
Unit 1 on Power Way is in the background
DRT's Crawley Unit 2 on Connect Way is in the foreground
Posted in Digital Realty: London LGW16 Source: DRT
First Floor Layout
Posted in Digital Realty: ORD10 |
Layout of Interxion's 3 data centers in Marseille
Posted in Digital Realty: MRS1 |
Rendering of MRS2
Posted in Digital Realty: Marseille MRS2 |
Naval base and warehouses in 1951
Posted in Digital Realty: Marseille MRS2 |
as of March 2018
Early part of the renovation
Posted in Digital Realty: Marseille MRS2 |
Rendering of MRS3
Posted in Digital Realty: Marseille MRS3 |
Aerial Rendering of Interxion's 2nd data center
Posted in Digital Realty: Marseille MRS2 |
The MRS 3 design vision: southwest facade (top), inner courtyard wall with a vertical garden (middle), northeast facade
MRS2 Facade design
Posted in Digital Realty: Marseille MRS2 Source: InterXion
MRS 2 and 3 will be linked to MRS 1 by Interxion’s own fiber network, creating the campus effect, where companies that keep their servers in Marseille-Fos Port can easily interconnect with any of t...
Interxion's network in Marseille
Posted in Digital Realty: Marseille MRS3 |
33 Chun Choi Floor Layout
Posted in Digital Tseung Kwan O (33 Chun Choi, Hong Kong) Source: DRT
432 count fiber ring between Sovereign House and Cloud House facilities
Posted in Digital Docklands: Cloud House Source: DRT
Driving directions to Digital Woking at Unit 21 of the Goldsworth Park Trading Estate
Posted in Digital Realty Woking Source: DRT
Entrance to Woking facility
Posted in Digital Realty Woking |
Mombasa facility under construction
Posted in Digital Realty: Mombasa One (MBA1) Source: icolo.io
SYD11
Posted in Digital Realty Erskine Park (Sydney) Source: AW Edwards
Entrance to SYD11
Posted in Digital Realty Erskine Park (Sydney) |
SYD11 Lobby
Posted in Digital Realty Erskine Park (Sydney) |
Colocation Floor Area
Posted in Digital Realty Erskine Park (Sydney) |
9333 Grand: Floor Plan showing 6 Pods (60' x 250' each)
Posted in Digital Realty: Chicago ORD12 |
Exterior of 9377 Grand
Posted in Digital Realty: ORD14 |
Exterior
Posted in Csquare: SFO4-B |
Colocation Area at 1500 Space Park
Posted in Csquare: SFO4-B |
Interxion Digital Park Paris looks like the Apple Campus
Posted in Digital Realty: Paris Digital Park |
Artist Rendering of the exterior
Posted in Digital Realty: Paris Digital Park Source: Interxion
Model of the AMS15 data centre
Posted in Digital Realty: Amsterdam AMS15 |
DRTs AMS15
Posted in Digital Realty: Amsterdam AMS15 |
DRT's Amstel Business Park Data Center
Posted in Digital Realty: AMS18 (Amstel Business Park) |
Rendering of Digital's 11 floor data center in Seoul
Posted in Digital Seoul 1 (ICN10) Source: DLR
Digital Reality's Seoul facility will be completed in late 2021
Posted in Digital Seoul 1 (ICN10) |
PAR8 location
Posted in Digital Realty: Paris Digital Park |
Drone shot of MRS3
Posted in Digital Realty: Marseille MRS3 |
Rendering of DRT's newest facilities under construction in Santa Clara
Posted in Digital Realty: SJC37 |
Layout of Interxion's Zurich data centers
Posted in Digital Realty: Zurich Source: Interxion
icolo's second Mombasa site under construction in 2021
Posted in Digital Realty: Mombasa MBA2 |
Rendering of PAR12, which opened in September 2021
Posted in Digital Realty: PAR12 Ferrières-en-Brie Source: Interxion
DRT HKG11
Posted in Digital Realty Kwai Chung HKG11 |
12 Floor HKG 11
Posted in Digital Realty Kwai Chung HKG11 |
Expansion plans for the Interxion's Digital Park Paukerwerkstraße campus
Posted in Digital Realty: Paukerwerkstrasse Campus |
Interxion acquired Altus
Posted in Digital Realty: ZAG1 |
Digital Realty PDX 11 data center
Posted in Digital Realty PDX11 Source: Google
Digital Realty's PAR 9 facility
Posted in Digital Realty: PAR 9 Source: Mercury
Digital Realty's Paris Digital Park
Posted in Digital Realty: Paris Digital Park Source: Mercury
CapitaLand's Croydon Site in London, UK
Posted in DRT London (Croydon) Source: CapitaLand
CapitaLand's Reynolds House Site in Manchester, UK
Posted in DRT Manchester Source: CapitaLand
Rendering of Digital Realty's MRS5 Data Center in Marseille, France
Posted in Digital Realty: MRS5 Source: Digital Realty
Digital Realty's PAR13 facility in Les Ulis, France
Posted in Digital Realty: PAR13 Source: Equans on LinkedIn
Digital Realty plans two-building data center campus in Charlotte
Posted in Digital Realty: CLT20 Source: Digital Realty
Rendering of Digital Realty's Digital Park Fechenheim in Frankfurt
Posted in Digital Realty: Digital Park Fechenheim Source: Digital Realty
Digital Realty acquired a 1920s office building in Charlotte, North Carolina
Posted in Digital Realty: 725 E. Trade Source: Digital Realty

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