Mar 27, 2026 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji
LCL Data Centers has opened a new facility in Belgium, unveiling its largest data center yet at the Brussels-North site in Diegem, east of the capital.
Laurens van Reijen, founder and CEO of LCL Data Centers, said: “With this new location, we are taking an important next step in building a truly Belgian and European digital backbone. This data center is designed for the future — AI‑ready, sustainable, and built to protect the most critical data. Our role as a 100 percent Belgian player gives us a unique responsibility: ensuring that strategic data can remain safe, independent, and close to home. This is only the beginning of what we can and want to achieve for Belgium.”
Plans to expand the Brussels-North facility in Diegem were first announced in late 2023, with construction beginning in April 2024.
The data center’s opening is marked by the installation of Belgian artist Luk Van Soom’s artwork De Wolk (The Cloud), a floating cloud atop the roof of the five-story building.
“Data centers are usually buildings that are everywhere yet invisible. Still, they carry the invisible infrastructure of our modern world,” Van Soom explains. “In a sense, data centers are the cathedrals of the 21st century. I wanted to explore the tension between the intangible nature of ‘the cloud’ and the very tangible, concrete structure of a data center in a physical, poetic way. A cloud is something you can see, but never truly touch.”
