Overview
Portuguese data center developer building and operating the 1.2 GW SINES Data Campus on Portugal's southwest coast, designed for cloud, AI and HPC with seawater cooling and renewable power.
Reality check
Shareholders (company-claimed)
Davidson Kempner Capital Management and Pioneer Point Partners funded SIN01 privately, with no subsidies or public funds.
Campus investment (company-claimed)
More than 8.5 billion euros in construction investment expected for the six-building SINES campus.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Data & sources
Web sources
2
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Safety record
No incidents on record for Start Campus.
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Recent coverage
Start Campus in third-party press
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdOct 13, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (2)
Common questions
What is Start Campus?
What does Start Campus make?
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Is Start Campus safe?
Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-31
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-31
Sources by quality tier
- 2
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Start Campus.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Start Campus from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
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Legrand Selected to Cool 1.2GW AI Campus in Portugal
Microsoft to Spend $10B on Portuguese AI Data Center
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Microsoft to Rent Nscale AI Data Center Capacity in Portugal
Start Campus and Schneider Electric build a sustainable 1.2GW data center: how do they do it?
Start Campus plans to invest $9.35 billion in Portugal data hub
Portugal: Investment agency searched as part of lithium investigation
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/start-campus.md
- RSS feed: /companies/start-campus/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/e4f6da81-8fb0-4d12-8657-cb8b57d03bd8
- Revision history: /companies/start-campus/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place Start Campus against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 29, 2026