Polish telco Korbank has announced that the completion of construction of a new data center in Wrocław has been postponed from March 2022 to mid-June this year.

This delay is a result of plans to add an additional three floors to the Centrum Badawczo-Rozwojowe Korbank Data Center, altering the original contract with JPB.

The original facility was intended to be a 1,500 sqm (16,150 sq ft) three-story building costing PLN 8.2 million ($1.9 million), however, the company said customer demand has necessitated the project to expand and double in size to 3,000 sqm (32,300 sq ft). It is expected to meet Tier III standards, and is estimated to cost PLN 13.1 million ($3 million).

Korbank, established in 1992, is a Polish telecommunications company. In 1994, the company built the first local LAN network in Poland in Kozanów in Wrocław. Its operations are focused on the Lower Silesia and Masovia regions and are available to both retail and business clients.

The company made adjustments to its expansion plan after seeing its revenues rise 25 percent in Q3 of 2021, which it claims was due to investments in fiber-optical networks and the development of its IPTV services.

Poland has also seen a number of recent developments in its data center infrastructure, especially in Warsaw. In December 2021, Deutsche Telekom-owned telco T-Mobile launched a 4,300 sqm facility in Warsaw, while Orange and local telco Netia have also opened new facilities in the city in the last year.

Vantage has broken ground on a new campus in Poland, as has Data4; the French company intends to invest up to €250 million ($278 million) on developing the site to build three data center buildings totaling 15,000 sqm (161,500 sq ft) and 50MW. The first building is due to come online in Q1 2023.

Google launched its first Polish cloud region in April 2021, and is the first of the big three US cloud players to do so.