Polish real estate firm DL Invest Group will build a new data centre in Bielsko-Biała, Poland.

The facility will be the first of a network of twelve in Europe as part of a joint venture agreed in November 2025 with cloud gaming firm Boosteroid.

DL Invest Group’s chief executive, Dominik Leszczyński, told the Polish outlet Property News the Bielsko-Biała facility would cost an estimated $1 billion and boast 50MW of capacity – up from the 20MW initially planned – and include an AI development component.

DCD has approached DL Invest Group for comment.

Leszczyński predicted that the Bielsko-Biała project will be completed by 2028. “The second data center will also be built in Poland,” he added in a separate press release. “We are analysing further locations in terms of energy costs and infrastructure.”

Founded in 2004, DL Invest Group is one of Poland’s largest real estate investors, with a portfolio encompassing self-storage, retail, mixed-use, and warehouse properties. Its joint venture with Boosteroid marks its first foray into the data center sector, albeit one with an experienced partner, the cloud gaming firm already running some 28 facilities across Europe and North America.

“We are building competencies in the data center segment in a methodical and responsible way, starting with projects that have a solid infrastructure and commercial foundation,” said Leszczyński. “This is a natural extension of our logistics-industrial strategy.”

Bielsko-Biała, a city in the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland, is already home to a 270,000 square kilometer retail park acquired by DL Invest Group in 2024 for €25 million ($29.4m). The site was one of five listed on DL Invest Group’s website as secured for future data centre developments. The others include three 100MW facilities planned for southern Poland and a smaller, 50MW development at Teresin, near Warsaw.

The announcement of the Bielsko-Biała comes amid a push by DL Invest Group to transform Abrdn European Logistics Income (ASLI), a UK-based real estate investment trust in which it holds an 18 percent stake, into a data center platform. All of its data centers, the Polish firm wrote in a prospectus issued to ASLI shareholders, would “follow a Built-to-Suit (BTS) model, tailored to the requirements of global data center operators.”

Boosteroid has a GPU-based infrastructure network spanning 28 data centers. It uses AMD-powered hardware developed by ASUS. The firm’s network spans the UK, Slovakia, Italy, Spain, Romania, Ukraine, Sweden (Stockholm), Serbia (Belgrade), and the US, among others.

Learn more about the data center market in Poland and Eastern Europe, and meet with other executives and experts from the region at the DCN Warsaw event later this year.