Qore Infrastructure Partners is headquartered in Zug. The choice reflects a conviction that Switzerland will play a role in European AI out of proportion to its size: not as the largest market, but as one of the most trusted.
Why sensitive workloads gravitate here
Political stability, legal certainty, strong data protection, neutrality and a central European location have long made Switzerland the domicile of choice for banks, insurers, pharmaceutical companies and international organisations. In the AI era, the models and data these institutions depend on are among their most sensitive assets, and the same qualities apply to the infrastructure that hosts them.
Demand reflects this. UBS estimates Swiss commercial data centre capacity at about 340 MW, more than doubled between 2020 and 2026, driven by cloud migration and AI, with financial services, insurance and pharmaceuticals leading and the large cloud providers expanding locally.
A market constrained by supply
Supply is the constraint. UBS cites limited energy resources, slow and costly expansion of grid and fibre connections, scarce suitable land and demanding requirements on heat reuse and renewable energy, and expects supply to lag demand for the foreseeable future. About 60% of capacity is concentrated in the Zurich, Aargau and Schaffhausen region; data centres consumed about 2.1 TWh in 2024, close to the annual consumption of the city of Zurich.
Sovereign capability at home
Switzerland is also building AI capabilities it intends to control. Apertus, an open, multilingual model developed by the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre and trained on the Alps supercomputer, is funded by the Confederation. Programmes of this kind require domestic capacity under Swiss control.
Where new capacity will come from
In a country with limited land and constrained grids, the fastest new capacity will come from existing infrastructure campuses with live power, extended through modular delivery without rezoning, and from new facilities outside the congested corridor with confirmed power, including direct renewable supply.
The platform's Swiss facilities follow exactly this logic: an operating digital infrastructure campus with live grid capacity, expanded through Qore Modular from 2027, and a greenfield facility with direct renewable supply. For governments, institutions and enterprises that need sovereign capacity in Switzerland, these are among the few routes that deliver before the end of the decade.
Sources
- Overdemand for data centers, including in Switzerland, UBS, July 2026
- Apertus: Swiss open source artificial intelligence, Università della Svizzera italiana
Figures are as reported by the sources above at the time of writing. This article is for general information only and does not constitute an offer, solicitation or investment, legal or tax advice.
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