According to Serbian Economist, the authorities of the Serbian city of Niš have taken another step toward the construction of a new state-owned data center worth 50 million euros: the city council approved the transfer of a 37,400-square-meter plot of land near Niška Banja to the Republic of Serbia.
According to the city council’s decision, the undeveloped plot, covering 3.74 hectares, is to be transferred to the state free of charge. The final decision must be approved by the Niš City Assembly. The plot is located near the IMI industrial complex in the direction of Niška Bana.
The preliminary cost of the project is estimated at approximately 50 million euros. The exact technical specifications of the future data center have not yet been officially published, but earlier reports mentioned a capacity of several dozen megawatts and the facility’s use not only for storing government data but also as part of a broader digital infrastructure for southern Serbia.
One of the most interesting features of the project previously cited was the possibility of using the heat generated by the server equipment for Niš’s district heating system. Officials spoke of the potential to provide heat to up to 8,000 apartments.
The project is of strategic importance to Niš. The city is the main economic and transportation hub of southern Serbia, located on the routes to North Macedonia and Bulgaria, and already has a university, a Science and Technology Park, and a significant electronics and IT industry cluster.
Locating the national data center in Niš will also allow for the geographic distribution of the country’s critically important digital infrastructure. Currently, its main national hub is the data center in Kragujevac.
In April 2026, new 8 MW modules were commissioned at the Kragujevac National Data Center, bringing the complex’s total power capacity to 14 MW. A new supercomputer based on NVIDIA graphics processing units was also launched there.
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