Mastercard is planning to develop three new data centers in France.

The payment card services company plans to invest around €250 million ($289.81m) in the data centers, which will build on around a dozen data centers already operating in Europe.

Details about the exact locations or whether the company is planning to build or lease space in colocation facilities have not been shared. DCD has contacted Mastercard for more information.

In a company announcement written by Kelly Devine, Mastercard’s president of Europe, the company said of the expansion: “That’s why we’re transforming our technology footprint, enabling the localization of our payments infrastructure to create a sustainable, distributed network that can run anywhere. This means always-on infrastructure and reduced vulnerability and greater resilience to natural or geopolitical events.”

While Mastercard states it has more than a dozen data centers currently operating in Europe, the locations of these facilities are not shared. Globally, the company operated some 60 data centers in late 2024, according to an interview with CTO of operations George Maddeloni. At least one data center is located in St Louis, Missouri.

Maddeloni said in that interview that while some are Mastercard’s own data centers, the majority are housed in colocation facilities. The data centers are in every region where Mastercard has customers processing transactions. The company also operates a backbone network of multiple 100-gig transport links using multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) technology.

In addition to its data center footprint, the payments processing company uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Azure for internal application deployments.

Competitor Visa launched a new data center in Johannesburg, South Africa, earlier this year, and also revealed plans for another in Nigeria.