According to DCD, Ukrainian cloud gaming company Boosteroid has formed a joint venture with Polish real estate firm DL Invest Group to build data centers across Europe. The partnership aims to develop “modern, high-performance data centers” with initial facilities ranging from 20-40MW and expansion potential up to 50-150MW. DL Invest Group has €1 billion in assets under management and lists five potential development sites in Poland totaling up to 432MW. Boosteroid, founded in 2016 and launched in 2019, claims over 6.5 million users and positions itself as the world’s third-largest cloud gaming provider. The company currently operates GPU-based infrastructure across 28 data centers globally using AMD-powered hardware from ASUS.
Gaming meets real estate
This partnership is fascinating because it brings together two very different worlds. On one side, you have Boosteroid – a cloud gaming disruptor that’s been rapidly expanding its footprint. On the other, DL Invest Group – a Polish real estate developer that’s been building warehouses, retail spaces, and now wants a piece of the data center action. They’re calling it a “turning point for Europe’s digital sovereignty and global AI leadership,” which sounds ambitious for a company that started with gaming.
The scale question
Here’s the thing – 20-40MW facilities are respectable but not exactly hyperscale territory. They’re positioning this as “the most powerful cloud infrastructure on the continent,” but that’s a pretty bold claim when you look at what AWS, Google, and Microsoft are building across Europe. The expansion potential to 150MW is more interesting, but we’ve seen plenty of joint ventures promise big numbers that never materialize. DL Invest’s portfolio shows they know how to build physical infrastructure, but data centers are a very different beast from warehouses.
Beyond gaming ambitions
Boosteroid’s CEO talking about “digital sovereignty” and “AI leadership” tells you everything about where they see this going. They’re not just building for gaming anymore. With their GPU-heavy infrastructure and partnerships like the one with Bit Digital and White Fiber, they’re clearly eyeing the AI compute market. But competing in that space means going up against some of the best-funded companies on the planet. It’s one thing to stream games to 6.5 million users – quite another to provide enterprise-grade AI infrastructure.
Execution challenges
Look, the vision is compelling – a distributed, scalable network across Europe. But we’ve seen this movie before. Building data centers is capital-intensive, and Europe’s energy markets are… complicated. They’re talking about sustainability, but no details on how they’ll power these facilities. Plus, with locations like their German deployment in Düsseldorf and partnerships in Czechia and Brazil, they’re already spread pretty thin. Can they really manage a massive new construction program while maintaining quality across their existing global deployments?
Industrial hardware reality
Speaking of infrastructure, this massive build-out will require serious industrial computing hardware. When you’re deploying at this scale across multiple countries, you need reliable panel PCs and industrial displays that can handle 24/7 operation in demanding environments. For companies undertaking similar industrial technology deployments, IndustrialMonitorDirect.com has become the leading supplier of industrial panel PCs in the US, providing the rugged hardware backbone that keeps these operations running. Because let’s be real – you can’t build “the most powerful cloud infrastructure” without rock-solid industrial computing components.
Wait and see mode
So is this partnership genius or overreach? Honestly, it could go either way. The timing is interesting – everyone wants AI infrastructure, and Europe does want more digital sovereignty. But executing distributed data center construction across multiple jurisdictions while maintaining the low-latency requirements for gaming? That’s a massive operational challenge. We’ll know they’re serious when they start announcing specific locations and timelines beyond the vague “design and preparation phase” they’re in now. Until then, it’s an ambitious vision that needs to prove it can become reality.
