Türkiye HIT-Data Centre Call — USD 1.5bn data-centre investment support tranche under HIT-30 (Ministry of Industry and Technology)

Mechanism

HIT-Data Centre is one of four sector-specific "çağrı" (calls for applications) opened under the HIT-30 umbrella programme in October 2025 — alongside HIT-AI (USD 1.6bn), HIT-Quantum (USD 300m) and HIT-Industrial Robot (USD 1bn). Each call operationalises a slice of HIT-30's original USD 30bn 2024-2030 envelope against sector-specific eligibility criteria rather than opening the programme's tax/grant/financing toolkit generically.

Eligibility for HIT-Data Centre requires facilities of at least 30 MW IT capacity, with at least 50% AI-compatible hardware and a PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) of 1.4 or lower — signalling the programme is explicitly sizing for hyperscale/AI-training-class facilities rather than general-purpose colocation. The instrument stack mirrors the HIT-30 seven-heading toolkit — corporate-tax reduction, capex grants, concessional financing, employment support, and market-development support — though the Ministry's own calls page does not itemise the exact percentage caps for this specific call (contrast with HIT-AI, where the 60%/40%/70% caps are stated explicitly).

GTA logs this single government call as two separate "interventions" (tax or social insurance relief; state aid, unspecified) under one state act (95013) because its instrument stack spans multiple GTA intervention-type categories — they are one underlying state action, not two.

Downstream implications

• Extends the HIT-30 localisation logic to digital infrastructure: the

original HIT-30 filing already listed data-centres among its 37 priority programmes; HIT-Data Centre (together with HIT-AI) converts that generic inclusion into a concrete, ring-fenced USD 3.1bn combined tranche with named eligibility thresholds — the same pattern used for HIT-30's battery and solar-cell sub-programmes.

• Positions Türkiye as a hyperscale/AI-compute investment destination

inside the EU customs-union perimeter but outside EU State Aid disciplines, competing for the same hyperscaler/sovereign-AI capex Poland, Spain, and Gulf states are also chasing with dedicated data-centre incentive regimes.

• Severity 3 (quant basis): USD 1.5bn for the Data Centre call alone

(USD 3.1bn combined with the HIT-AI call) is a meaningful but sub-battery-scale slice of the USD 30bn HIT-30 envelope (~10% combined); rated in line with the sibling HIT-AI filing and below the parent HIT-30 filing (severity 4) because this is an implementing tranche, not new incremental headline commitment, and the 30 MW/50% AI-hardware/PUE≤1.4 eligibility floors concentrate support on a small number of hyperscale- class applicants.

Open questions

• Official Resmi Gazete / Cumhurbaşkanı Kararı reference: the Ministry's

own hit30.sanayi.gov.tr/cagrilar page lists the HIT-Data Centre call but does not surface a gazette/decree number; confirm via a future amendment if the formal legal instrument is published separately.

• Award register: as with the parent HIT-30 entry, no public register of

which applicants/projects have been approved under HIT-Data Centre has been identified; watch for disclosures once the call closes.

• Companion calls (HIT-Quantum USD 300m, HIT-Industrial Robot USD 1bn):

filed separately if/when they clear their own dedup + primary-source checks; do not re-file as duplicates of this entry.