Will supply power to data centers in central Spain.
Spanish renewable energy developer Solaria has received confirmation from Spanish grid operator Red Eléctrica de España to connect another 250MW of new power capacity to supply data centers in central Spain.
The new capacity will mean the company now has 1.2GW of power directly supplying the Spanish data center market. The company says that it can offer data centers an expedited connection timeframe due to its extensive generation and evacuation infrastructure.
Under its connection model, Solaria will provide the data centers with guaranteed electrical supply and the necessary infrastructure—plants, power lines, and substations—to directly connect them to the transmission grid, which the company claims bypasses years of administration processes.
The latest connection approval follows two earlier this month, where the renewable developer was granted approval to connect three data centers with a combined capacity of 355MW of demand. One of the data centers is located in the Basque region, and the other two are located in the Community of Madrid.
Solaria said it now has more than 1GW of data capacity in its pipeline, following a number of grid connection authorizations across Spain.
The Madrid-headquartered company was founded in 2002 and has more than 3GW of renewable capacity operational and under construction. Its portfolio is dominated by solar energy, covering more than 80 percent of its energy mix. The company also operates wind energy and battery storage assets.
The company is actively developing 1.4GW of solar energy projects in Spain and has set ambitious goals to reach 14.3GW of energy capacity across Europe by 2028, with plans to expand that figure to 18GW by 2030.
In addition, the company operates private electrical infrastructure comprising nearly 1,000 kilometers of networks, 97 substations, and 70 solar plants.
In May 2024, Solaria launched a new data center-focused subsidiary, revealing at the time that it had secured 155MW of grid capacity and was seeking approvals for an additional 860MW.
Back in September, Solaria revealed plans to develop a 200MW AI-focused data center in collaboration with Japanese tech firm Datasection. The project will repurpose the company’s existing industrial site in Puertollano for data center operations.
Later in the year, Solaria also shared that it was in talks with various US and European partners to form joint ventures aimed at building cloud and AI data centers across the region.
