Amsterdam is for us the strategic primary entry into the Dutch market. Not because it's the capital, but because it's a top-3 data centre hub globally — alongside Ashburn (US-Virginia) and Ashkelon (Israel) — and that's exactly where we can deliver what we've already proven in Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca.
AMS-IX and the data centre hub
Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX) is in the top-3 internet exchanges in Europe by peak traffic. Around it physically concentrates a density of data centres unmatched anywhere else on the continent: Equinix AM1 to AM7, NTT AMS1 to AMS6, Interxion AMS (now Digital Realty), Iron Mountain AMS-1. For an integrator that means every month a new hall or new phase opens somewhere in the agglomeration, and every phase needs fibre backbone, cooling design, UPS sizing, DCIM integration, and structured cabling in gigabit multiples.
Our `edge-datacenter-telco` project (Bucharest, 2024) was an edge-class DC with Vertiv SmartMod modular shell, InfiniBand and DWDM transport between racks, and EcoStruxure IT DCIM. Our `ai-cluster-research-lab` project (Cluj-Napoca, 2025) was an AI cluster with NVIDIA Blackwell nodes, Mellanox NDR InfiniBand and Slurm/Pyxis orchestration. Both technologically directly transferable to any new hall at Equinix AM6, AM7, or planned expansions at Schiphol-Rijk. For Amsterdam we aren't writing a new case study — we're writing an extension of an existing one.
Banking and fintech base
Amsterdam is also the financial centre of the Netherlands — ING Bank, ABN AMRO, Rabobank (HQ in Utrecht, but large IT operations in AMS). For an integrator that doesn't mean a classic contract in core banking systems — long-standing Dutch suppliers and global firms like Accenture, Capgemini, Deloitte work there. It does mean peripheral work: structured cabling in new offices in Zuidas (financial district), AV installations for executive meeting rooms, AV integration to the MS Teams Rooms standard, smart-building control in renovated bank offices. No core financial system, but plenty of physical IT infrastructure carrying these systems.
Tata Steel IJmuiden and Port of Amsterdam
In the regional geography of North Holland there's also a second important segment — heavy industry by the coast. Tata Steel IJmuiden (formerly Hoogovens) is the largest steel mill in the Netherlands, with full metallurgical geography: blast furnace, coke plant, hot-rolling mill, galvanising. Port of Amsterdam is Europe's fourth-largest port (after Rotterdam, Antwerp and Hamburg) with cocoa terminals, fuel transshipment, and container operations.
For such places, long-standing Dutch suppliers with full ATEX certification in zones 0/1 and decades of experience in the salt-air maritime environment are sought first. For an integrator from the V4 space, this is more a peripheral zone — administrative IT, maintenance outside active ATEX zones, and support for zone projects in subcontractor mode.
Heineken International and Schiphol periphery
Heineken International has its HQ in Amsterdam with major operations in Zoeterwoude (Zuid-Holland). Schiphol Airport (LSZH/EHAM) is Europe's third-largest passenger airport hub — with Schiphol Group as operator and an ecosystem of IT services (KLM IT, Schiphol Real Estate, ground-handling automation suppliers). Here for an integrator we open potential via specialised AV and IT infrastructure — terminal displays, multi-vendor digital signage, network refresh in ground-handling zones.
Our commuting relationship
Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS) is from Košice direct flight about 2 hours 30 minutes (KLM, Transavia, Wizz Air seasonally). That's a realistic model for us — Monday morning, accommodation for 1 to 4 weeks, return weekend. For longer projects team rotation in two-week cycles.
Car Prešov–Amsterdam via Brno, Nuremberg, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf is about 1,600 km and 14 hours of pure driving. For tool transport or special material we can arrange a weekly delivery in a van; for personal trips by air via AMS Schiphol remains the primary model.
Where we're opening up in Amsterdam
Data centre hall fit-out — fibre backbone, cooling design (rear-door HX for racks above 25 kW, for AI clusters direct-liquid cooling via Submer or GRC immersion), UPS sizing via Eaton 93PM, DCIM via EcoStruxure IT or Sunbird dcTrack. This is our home zone.
AI cluster deployment — NVIDIA HGX H200 / B200 hardware, InfiniBand NDR network, Slurm/Pyxis orchestration, MLPerf benchmarking. For R&D branches in AMS starting their own on-premise AI inferencing or training stacks.
Target for 2026–2027: first delivered contract in the Amsterdam data centre orbit. Actively looking for a path via existing vendor partnerships (Vertiv, Schneider, NVIDIA Partner Network).
Cross-border context
For clients with operations in Amsterdam and also in DACH (frequent for large Dutch banks with IT operations in Frankfurt or Düsseldorf), we can deliver uniformly — DACH contract via German contracts, NL contract via WagwEU notification to SVB with A1 from SP SR filed 5 working days before start. VAT reverse-charge via wet OB § 12, we invoice with the note "BTW verlegd".