Our CEO Laurens van Reijen’s journey is anything but typical, from early telecom days to building LCL into a leading datacenter player. In @tijd.be he shares how a strategy of local, sustainable growth shaped the company, and how today’s AI boom reminds him of the fiber hype.
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LCL Data Centers strengthens Belgium's and Europe's digital sovereignty with its newest datacenter in LCL Brussels-North. The artwork 'The Cloud' on the rooftop of the datacenter brings together art and technology.
Henna Virkkunen delivered a keynote at the grand opening of the new data center of LCL Data Centers in LCL Brussels-North.
LCL Data Centers strengthens Belgium's and Europe's digital sovereignty with its newest datacenter.
Read the full press release: www.lcl.be/en/news/lcl-...
LCL Data Centers today announces a strategic partnership with Dutch MSSP company Varity.
Together, they focus on a network architecture in which critical IT environments are no longer publicly visible. This is achieved through the #SCION protocol.
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🔐 Control over data is control over risk
Executives today are personally accountable for their organisation’s #datasovereignty. Everyone agrees that control matters. The real question is: do you truly have it?
Baudouin Corlùy, CMDO at LCL Data Centers, shares a clear executive perspective.
2025 pushed us further than any year before.
More constructions. More renewable energy. More resilience.
For 2026, one principle guides us: growth only makes sense if it is responsible. Read our CEO's take on how LCL will deliver that:
@lcldatacenters.bsky.social has once again been awarded the EcoVadis Platinum medal. With a score of 95/100, our highest result ever, we remain among the top 1% of telecom companies worldwide in terms of sustainability performance.
AI is transforming every stage of the pharmaceutical lifecycle. To unlock this potential, the sector needs long-term infrastructure, clear adoption strategies and close industry-academia collaboration.
🔗 Discover why Belgium should take the lead in housing AI infrastructure to boost life sciences:
We are pleased to announce that Gaëlle Helsmoortel and Béla Waldhauser have joined our Board of Directors. Their arrival underlines that LCL is prepared for the future: sustainable, AI-ready, and internationally connected.
🔗 Read the full Q&A with Gaëlle and Béla now:
Whatever happens in the digital world, it all runs on physical infrastructure. At LCL, we protect that foundation with an onion layered security approach.
Curious to know what that means?
Discover the full story in our interview with Nicolas Coppee (CIO) & Sam Berckmans (IT Systems Manager) here:
With 6,000 solar panels, here’s what our new solar park on four Belgian farms delivers:
⚡ High output: expected annual power generation of 3.0 GWh
🌾 Low footprint: rooftops only, no pressure on biodiversity or spatial planning
📍 Local value: providing our partner farmers with affordable green energy
🎙️ “The server under the desk is no longer an option.”
Cloud, on-premises or hybrid? That’s the question Tiziano Durante from #Microsoft and Koen Van Loo from #GroupS tackle in ‘Data center dialogues’, a new podcast by @dcuniversity.bsky.social.
📲 Listen now via datacenteruniversity.be/podcasts/
Breaking news: our Sustainability Report 2024 is live!
At a time when sustainability reporting requirements are being relaxed, we went the extra mile and voluntarily prepared a separate CSRD-aligned Sustainability statement.
🔗 Read the full report here:
Professor Bjorn Cumps (Vlerick Business School) reminds us that as artificial intelligence transforms our world with smarter solutions, we must also be mindful of its growing energy needs.
🔗 Read the article below and discover how end users can help drive sustainable AI.
At LCL, we are proud to take a decisive step in the energy transition. We have developed a new solar park on the roofs of four local farms, a national first: the largest local CPPA in Belgium to date.
👇 Read our full press release below.
#LCLDataCenters #Sustainability #EnergyTransition
We've made a tough decision 🛠️
In response to the EU’s Omnibus proposal, we’ve decided to take our wind turbines back down. We fully support rolling back environmental policy… said no one at LCL 😇 Happy April Fools’! While the policy shift is real, we're sticking with renewables—turbines and all.
