KRIOS Infrastructure launches to tackle Europe’s power constraint

KRIOS Infrastructure has launched as a pan‑European infrastructure platform focused on developing zoned, grid‑secured land to enable large‑scale AI and data centre projects. Backed by an initial capital commitment in excess of €200m from Sandbrook Capital, a global infrastructure investment firm, the company aims to reduce one of the most significant constraints on the expansion of Europe’s digital infrastructure: the availability of power‑ready sites supported by local communities.

Europe’s demand for digital infrastructure is accelerating, but the delivery of suitable sites remains constrained by power availability and development complexity. In a 2026 survey by the European Data Centre Association, 67 percent of European operators cited power availability as their primary constraint to expansion.

Europe is also facing a widening gap in artificial intelligence computing infrastructure. According to Stanford University’s AI Index, the United States operates more than an order of magnitude greater AI computing capacity than Europe, with China also deploying multiple times Europe’s capacity. Policymakers across Europe have increasingly highlighted the need to accelerate domestic infrastructure development to support economic competitiveness and digital sovereignty.

KRIOS Infrastructure aims to address these constraints by working in close partnership with host communities and utilities, coordinating permitting, landowners, power suppliers and infrastructure developers in parallel rather than sequentially. KRIOS is designed to engage early with local stakeholders, ensuring that projects move forward only where community priorities, shared long-term value creation and infrastructure readiness are aligned.

KRIOS Infrastructure is led by a team of founders with deep experience across digital infrastructure and the energy system, including former Microsoft executives with utility and power-sector backgrounds, and senior leadership with long-standing experience working with electricity networks, utilities and regulated infrastructure providers.

The company is building a portfolio of zoned and grid-secured sites across Europe capable of supporting hyperscale and AI-scale campuses. They expect large-scale facilities – typically requiring between 300 megawatts and 1 gigawatt of capacity - to remain supply-constrained beyond the end of the decade.

"Europe’s digital future depends not only on technology, but on infrastructure. The single greatest bottleneck today is not demand - it is the availability of reliable power at scale and under competitive timeframes" says Philip Lewis, CEO of KRIOS Infrastructure.

"We are thrilled to partner with the KRIOS team to help develop scalable, sustainable data centre sites and bring many of our learnings from similar investments in the U.S. to the European market. We believe the KRIOS team’s deep power expertise and partnership approach to development position them powerfully to help unlock world-class data centre sites that benefit all stakeholders", says Sebastian Serra, Managing Director at Sandbrook Capital.

By aligning communities and utilities early in the development cycle, KRIOS Infrastructure aims to reduce delivery risk, shorten timelines and increase certainty for large-scale AI and data centre projects.