ELITE / GOVERNMENT & INDUSTRY
Italy’s investment strategy and Lombardy’s planning framework provide the wider context for data centre and AI infrastructure development in metropolitan Milan.
INTERACTIVE POLICY DIAGRAM
Select a stage to explore its purpose, the source document and its relevance to the proposed San Giuliano development.
The national strategy seeks to strengthen Italy’s role in European and Mediterranean digital infrastructure. It considers enabling infrastructure, suitable development areas and a more coordinated investment environment.
For San Giuliano: assess the existing developed site against infrastructure and development requirements. National policy does not designate this property as an approved data centre.
Regional Law 11/2026 addresses data centre location and planning. Requested electrical connection capacity above 5 MW is relevant to the productive-use framework; above 10 MW, supramunicipal coordination becomes relevant.
For San Giuliano: the reported 70 MW request makes regional and municipal coordination a central diligence workstream. Applicable planning rights still require project-specific assessment.
DGR 6645 defines priority conditions and related incentive mechanisms. DGR 6646 addresses the integrated authorisation framework. Technical and planning eligibility depend on the detailed project evidence.
For San Giuliano: examine regeneration qualification, energy efficiency, renewable generation, heat reuse and water demand within a coordinated masterplan. No project incentive has been established.
DGR 6814 sets out coordination and territorial compensation methodology. Requested connection capacity above 50 MW involves regional convening. Compensation is assessed through the applicable methodology, not a single universal fee.
For San Giuliano: reconcile grid conditions, municipal planning, territorial impacts and the delivery structure before committing to a development programme.
Diagram prepared by ELITE from the cited government documents. It is an explanatory framework, not an official government drawing, an approval sequence or a government-approved masterplan for this property.
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION / HISTORICAL CONTEXT
Figure 9.6 in Rapporto Lombardia 2025, published by PoliS-Lombardia, maps data centres around Milan. The concentration illustrates the metropolitan context in which the San Giuliano opportunity sits.
This is a historical ecosystem map from a regional research publication. It is not a map of government-proposed facilities, an exhaustive current inventory or evidence of an ELITE approval.
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READING THE FRAMEWORK
Electrical connection capacity and combustion-plant thermal input describe different systems. They must not be substituted for each other.
Requested electrical connection capacity; productive-use provisions in the regional framework.
Requested electrical connection capacity; supramunicipal planning coordination.
Requested electrical connection capacity; the coordination framework under DGR 6814.
Regional procedure scope for covered combustion plant. This is not IT load or grid import.
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