Baltic data centers group Delska has expanded its infrastructure capacity as AI workloads push power requirements of up to 250kW per rack.
Delska was recently featured in the September 2025 issue of Data Centre Magazine. In this exclusive interview, Andris Gailitis, the CEO of the company, discussed the company’s evolution, including our €30M+ Riga facility.
“When we started, IT technologies helped other industries. Now IT is becoming, in most countries, a critical industry itself: the same as hospitals, the same as banks. If someone completely stopped the communications and data center industries, it would mean a major crisis for modern society,”
This evolution has turned Delska’s services into a necessity rather than a luxury. However, the market has also become much more competitive as demand has increased.
The company’s evolution accelerated through strategic acquisition by Quaero European Infrastructure Fund II and consolidation of a group of companies under the new brand Delska. The companies that formed Delska have operated in the region for 26 years, providing industry expertise, including knowledge of local regulations and business practices that newer competitors lack.
By merging expertise and IT teams, we’ve evolved and broadened our spectrum of portfolio to become a one-stop provider for customers’ IT infrastructure.
“What sets us apart is not just our technology but our more than 26 years of experience, enabling us to offer more than infrastructure. We provide hands-on expertise for daily administration, monitoring, and maintenance, backed by SLAs that guarantee uptime and reliability,”
Another significant aspect favoring Delska is the Baltic region’s climate. The region’s cooler temperatures allow the facilities to use free-cooling systems for extended periods throughout the year, reducing reliance on energy-intensive mechanical cooling that typically accounts for 40% of data center power consumption. Free cooling draws cold outside air directly into the facility when ambient temperatures drop below server inlet requirements.
Delska completes Riga facility with multimillion investment and modular AI design
Being a true infrastructure player, Delska takes its data center portfolio very seriously. One of the company’s biggest prides currently is our new data center – EU North Riga LV DC1, set to launch at the beginning of 2026.
Delska’s new Riga facility addresses a problem facing every data center operator: nobody knows how much power AI applications will need. Traditional hosting uses 10-20 kilowatts per rack, but AI can demand anywhere from 50 to 250 kilowatts per rack. This makes capacity planning extremely difficult.
The new data center in Latvia designed to handle both scenarios without wasting money on unused capacity.
“Built on a modular design, the site scales from 10 MW to 30 MW on owned land next to the construction site, enabling right-sized, on-demand capacity without overprovisioning,”
“At the simple level of regular hosting, it’s 10-20 kilowatts per rack. When it comes to AI, it's a complete disaster in terms of predictability. You can have 50 kilowatts, 100, 250,” Andris elaborated. “You can’t build a data center capable of hosting a 10-kilowatt rack and a one-megawatt rack. So, when you are planning server rooms or a data center, you need to plan these levels and ask, what is the upper limit for you?”
Upon completion, the data center will be Tier III certified and one of fewer than 20 LEED-certified buildings in the Baltics. This will be the greenest and most sustainable data center in the region.
To learn more about Delska, our new AI-compatible data center in Riga, as well as myDelska 24/7 self-service cloud platform, and next-gen network infrastructure in connectivity trends, read the full article.
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