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Spain has 4 tracked bills on artificial intelligence and data centers: 2 enacted, 2 in committee.
The atlas records 10 data-center facilities in Spain, and the 10 that report capacity total about 1,555 MW.
Spain is the EU's most proactive member on AI governance, having stood up AESIA — Europe's first dedicated national AI supervisory agency — in 2023. A draft national AI law is working through parliament to fully transpose the EU AI Act. On infrastructure, Madrid and Aragón are absorbing a hyperscale data center boom backed by tens of billions from Amazon, Microsoft, and Blackstone — but water scarcity and grid congestion in Aragón are raising serious environmental flags.
4 bills with a published summary and a link to the primary source.
In committeeGovernanceUpdated
Approved in first reading by Spain's Council of Ministers on March 11, 2025, this draft bill transposes the EU AI Act into national law, establishing prohibited AI practices…
EnactedGovernanceUpdated
Approved on August 22, 2023 and operational since June 2024, this royal decree established AESIA as Europe's first dedicated national AI supervisory authority, headquartered in A…
In committeeData CentersUpdated
Spain's Ministry for the Ecological Transition is finalizing a 2025–2030 grid development plan that will allocate an additional 3.8 GW of capacity specifically for data centers…
EnactedData CentersUpdated
The Government of Aragón approved the Plan of General Interest ('PIGA') for Microsoft's three-campus data-centre complex spanning La Muela, Villamayor de Gállego and Zaragoza —…
10 tracked sites; 10 report capacity.
Amazon Web Services
Villanueva de Gállego, Zaragoza, Aragón, SpainOperational50 MWEcoGPT research
Microsoft
Villamayor de Gállego, Zaragoza, Aragón, SpainProposed200 MWEcoGPT research
Microsoft
La Muela, Zaragoza, Aragón, SpainProposed300 MWEcoGPT research
Meta Platforms
Talavera de la Reina, Castilla-La Mancha, SpainProposed200 MWEcoGPT research
Nabiax (Aermont Capital)
Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, SpainUnder construction100 MWEcoGPT research
QTS Data Centers (Blackstone)
Calatorao, Zaragoza, Aragón, SpainUnder construction300 MWEcoGPT research
Pure Data Centres Group
Meco, Madrid, SpainUnder construction90 MWEcoGPT research
Apto Data Centers
Fuenlabrada, Madrid, SpainProposed240 MWEcoGPT research
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)
Barcelona, Catalonia, SpainOperational15 MWEcoGPT research
Data4 Group
Alcobendas, Madrid, SpainOperational60 MWEcoGPT research
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