Although this issue is often overshadowed under other news, the truth is that the data centers are today the technological heart of Europe, and in Spain, Madrid and Aragon have become epicenters for the arrival of technological giants such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta.
However, regulation in Spain threatens to change everything, as we have been able to know via The country. The Ministry of Ecological Transition has put on the table a royal decree that forces these to measure, report and justify its environmental and socio -economic impact, including water consumption, energy, employment creation and sustainability projects.
While this, to some extent, can be positive, for Madrid and Aragon, this would be a brake in full expansion of a sector that provides billions and thousands of jobs.
Simply, All this adds more bureaucracy and an excessive control that it could cause these huge companies to go where they have come.
Madrid and Aragon press to save billions at stake
All this nervousness is born from something quite logical as mentioned before: investment. In the Community of Madrid, around 23,400 million euros are played in investments related to data centers, while Aragon sneaks like the authentic European Titan with plans and projects totaling 48,000 million euros.
A recent report from the Basilio Paraíso Foundation reveals that, only in Aragon, the construction of these centers could create between 136,000 and 187,000 jobs until 2035, with a peak greater than 30,000 workers in some years.
In addition, more than 9,000 direct jobs of high qualification are expected once the facilities work in full performance, with quite juicy salaries.
Regarding the regulations that you want to force to comply with, regional governments claim that this information, consider key to their competitiveness, should remain confidential. With this on the table, the war could be said to have begun.
The Ministry, on the other hand, defends that since it is a scarce resource, electricity must be distributed prioritizing projects compatible with climatic objectives, positive impact on the local economy and employment generation. Thus, not only investment is sought, but also sustainability and responsibility. Now, the next phase is negotiation.
AWS chooses Spain for a macroproject of 15.7 billion euros in which they expect to build 24 new data centers
Leaving this debate aside and with the idea of knowing what projects, in this case in Aragon, there are on the table, Comment on the incredible AWS macroproject. The company wants to build 24 new buildings for data centers and eight cloud storage in five community municipalities.
If Amazon forecasts are completed, data centers will begin operating to the maximum performance in 2035.
The new centers that will store the information are added to the six that the company had planned in the initial project presented in 2020. Amazon would build two bases in each of the three initial locations: Villanueva de Gállego, Huesca (Pathus) and the Burgo de Ebro (El Espartal).
The first facilities began operating in autumn of 2023, but their maximum performance will occur over the next year, plans regarding what was marked on the initial route are advanced.
To the three original locations add the Zaragoza business polygon. Each new location encompasses groups of data centers that are physically independent, but connected to AWS services by low latency networks.
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