Databricks to invest more than $500 million in the Netherlands and double its Amsterdam R&D hub

Nov 10, 2026
Databricks plans to invest more than $500 million in the Netherlands over three years, opened an 11-storey office in Amsterdam and aims to train 40,000 people in data and AI by 2030.

Databricks plans to invest more than $500 million in the Netherlands over the next three years, the company said. It expects to double its local workforce and expand its Amsterdam site, which is its largest research and development hub in Europe.

The company also opened a 13,000 square meter office across 11 storeys in The Rock tower. Teams at the site work on Genie ZeroOps, Databricks Apps and internal systems used by the company's engineers.

Databricks plans to train more than 40,000 students and professionals in the Netherlands by 2030. Dutch customers named in the release include ABN Amro, AkzoNobel, Heineken, PostNL, Shell and UMC Utrecht.

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