LCL Data Centers has launched a new facility in Belgium.

The company this week announced the opening of its newest and largest data center at its Brussels-North site in Diegem, in the east of the capital city, Brussels.

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 originally announced in late 2023, breaking ground in April 2024.

The opening of the data center is accompanied by the installation of a new artwork by Belgian artist Luk Van Soom. His artwork, De Wolk (The Cloud), is a floating cloud atop the roof of the five‑story data center.

“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.”

The company acquired the former Ebone data center in Diegem in 2002, operating under the name TCL telehousing. The company operates in five locations, including Brussels, Antwerp, and Gembloux.