Summary
- Twenty20 Energy plans data centres in Słupsk and Redzikowo, with construction expected to begin this year.
- The Gryfin Project targets 50MW by 2028 and up to 790MW by 2030.
- The scheme would push northern Poland deeper into Europe’s AI infrastructure and power-led site selection debate.
Twenty20 Energy plans to develop two data centres in northern Poland under a staged programme that could reach up to 790MW of compute power by 2030.
The proposed Gryfin Project would place facilities in Słupsk and Redzikowo, in the Pomeranian Voivodeship. Construction is expected to begin this year, with the first 50MW planned to become operational by 2028 before later phases lift the total substantially by the end of the decade.
Local Polish reporting says the investment is expected to run into the billions of złoty and could include a regional service hub and European headquarters function in the Słupsk area. The project has been linked to large-scale digital services, AI workloads, and the energy infrastructure needed to support them.
CEE capacity moves north
Poland has been moving from a secondary market position into a more serious Central and Eastern European data centre role. Warsaw remains the country’s clearest digital infrastructure hub, but large projects outside the capital are increasingly being framed around power access, land, and industrial development rather than proximity to traditional enterprise tenants alone.
Słupsk and Redzikowo would give the project a different profile from an urban colocation development. The proposed scale points to campus-style infrastructure, where utility access, land assembly, grid reinforcement, backup power strategy, fibre routes, and cooling design matter more than conventional city-centre connectivity. The fact that the developer is an energy-focused company is not incidental. AI data centre projects are now as much energy system propositions as real estate propositions.
The reported 790MW target is large enough to require caution. Early-stage data centre pipelines often use headline power numbers to express ambition before all enabling works are proven. The delivery test will be whether Twenty20 can secure the required land, grid access, permits, construction capacity, and customer commitments in stages that make engineering and financial sense.
Power and credibility will decide delivery
The attraction of northern Poland is clear. The region can offer industrial land, access to wider Baltic infrastructure, and a policy environment keen to capture digital investment. Poland also has a growing data centre ecosystem, a large domestic economy, and a stronger CEE demand story than it had a few years ago.
The constraint is equally clear. A multi-hundred-megawatt campus cannot be treated as a standard property development. It becomes a grid-planning issue, a regional energy-load issue, and a labour and supply-chain issue. Transformers, switchgear, generators, chillers, liquid cooling equipment, structural steel, and skilled MEP contractors all become part of the delivery equation.
Water and heat will also come into the discussion as AI densities increase. If the project is designed around high-performance computing, cooling infrastructure will need to be explained early, not left as a back-end technical detail. Communities and local authorities are becoming more willing to ask how much electricity will be required, where it comes from, what heat is rejected, and whether employment claims match the physical footprint.
The Gryfin Project is therefore a strong story even before detailed permits are visible. It captures the new shape of European data centre development: large loads looking for industrial-scale sites, energy developers moving closer to compute, and CEE markets trying to turn power and land into digital infrastructure leverage.
