Internet Exchange operator DE-CIX is launching Stockholm's first AI-ready Internet and Cloud Exchange, taking orders immediately ahead of a September 2026 go-live. The deployment completes the company's Nordic rollout, which began in 2023 with sites in Denmark, Norway, and Finland, and adds Sweden's capital to a global ecosystem that spans 60-plus locations and interconnects more than 4,000 networks across five continents.
The timing is deliberate. In May 2026, the United States and Sweden signed a Technology Prosperity Deal covering AI, connectivity, advanced manufacturing, and quantum technologies — a formal recognition that the transatlantic digital corridor is becoming infrastructure-critical. Swedish companies already support 280,000 American jobs and directed $119 billion in foreign investment into the US economy in 2024.
Stockholm qualifies as the exchange point for that corridor: it is the largest colocation market in the Nordic region, backed by 125-plus active network providers. The new DE-CIX site will be operated by DE-CIX International GmbH across multiple data centre locations in the Stockholm metropolitan area, offering both internet peering and cloud interconnection from the same access point.
The exchange is built around DE-CIX's AI-IX capability, designed to handle data-intensive workloads, low-latency real-time inference, and hybrid and multi-cloud architectures that customers are now assembling under AI workloads. Digital sovereignty requirements — increasingly a procurement filter for European enterprises — are a stated design constraint.
"With more than 30 data centers, Stockholm is a huge hub for the Nordics, handling 55% of total Nordic Internet traffic," said Ivo Ivanov, CEO of DE-CIX. "By expanding to Stockholm with an AI-ready Internet and Cloud Exchange, we are bringing our interconnection services closer to customers in Sweden and the wider Nordic region, while seamlessly integrating them into our global ecosystem."
The Stockholm launch extends a steady Nordic buildout that has followed cloud adoption and AI-driven workload growth in the region. Whether the new exchange captures enterprise demand that has historically routed through Frankfurt or Amsterdam will depend on how quickly colocation customers in Stockholm's 30-plus data centres commit to the local interconnection fabric.
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