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# Google announces EUR 5 billion AI infrastructure investment in Belgium
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2025-10-07-google-belgium-ai-infrastructure-investment/
- Published: 2025-10-07T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-13T12:00:22.000Z
- Description: Google announced a new EUR 5 billion investment for 2026 to 2027 to expand its St Ghislain data centre campus in Wallonia for AI and cloud computing, additional to over EUR 11 billion invested in Belgium since 2007.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Compute and infrastructure, Industry, investment and R&D, #news, #verified, #editor-read

Verified Editor-read [Google Cloud Press Corner, 7 October 2025](https://www.googlecloudpresscorner.com/2025-10-07-Google-Announces-New-EUR5-Billion-AI-Infrastructure-Investment-in-Belgium-through-2027?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** It does not change who owns or controls the capacity added; Google remains the owner and operator.

**How this item counts.** This item is dated before the index starts on 1 January 2026, so it does not count in the [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/).

**How this item was made.** Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above; read and approved by the editor on 2026-10-13\. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)