Data-center law in Liechtenstein
National jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-06
Liechtenstein has no data-centre-specific siting, permitting, or incentive statute. A data centre is reached by the general building-permit regime of the Baugesetz (BauG), which requires a permit for the construction of a building and, separately, for a heating, ventilation, cooling, or energy-generation installation above a stated thermal or airflow threshold, covering a data centre's cooling and power plant as such.
Grid connection runs through the general non-discriminatory connection and transmission duties on a network operator under the Elektrizitätsmarktgesetz (EMG).
No data-centre-specific ICT investment incentive, free-zone, or energy-efficiency-reporting duty on a large energy consumer was located; the Energieeffizienzgesetz's substantive provisions are a subsidy fund for efficiency and renewable-energy measures and a government-to-government energy and water consumption cadastre, neither of which imposes a duty on an energy consumer such as a data-centre operator.
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Instruments on record
2 instruments on record, grouped by the family of approval each one governs.
Energy and grid
What authorizations govern grid connection and onsite generation?
Elektrizitätsmarktgesetz Arts. 14 and 16, Grid Access and Connection Duty
In force
EMG, LGBl. 2002 Nr. 144, Arts. 14 and 16
Applies to both
A network operator must grant non-discriminatory transmission of electricity to generators, supply undertakings, and customers at a set transmission price and general network conditions (Art. 14), and must grant non-discriminatory connection to the network to generators, supply undertakings, and customers at a set connection price and the general network conditions (Art. 16).
These duties establish the regime under which a large electricity consumer, such as a data centre, obtains grid transmission and connection in Liechtenstein.
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Construction
What codes and permits govern the build itself?
Baugesetz, Building Permit Regime
In force
BauG, LGBl. 2008 Nr. 44, Arts. 72, 79-80 and 99
Applies to both
A building permit is required for the construction, alteration, or demolition of a building or installation, and separately for a heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, refrigeration, or energy-generation installation with a thermal capacity above 3 kW or a ventilation installation with an airflow above 2,000 cubic metres per hour, among other listed categories.
The building authority must grant a permit that complies with building and planning law, and construction may not begin before the permit is final. Building without a required permit, or in violation of one, is punished by the district court with a fine of up to CHF 100,000 or, if uncollectible, imprisonment of up to one year. A data centre's building shell and its cooling and power-generation plant both fall within this permit regime.
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