Digital Realty It is building in Sant Adrià de Besòs (Barcelona) Your first data center in Catalonia. The location, of course, is not the result of chance, but the result of a search that the Dutch company began before the pandemic throughout the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona.
In this way, the ‘BCN1’, as the Data Centerwill be strategically located for its proximity to the Barcelona Cable Landing Station (BCLS)mooring station of the submarine cables that reach the city, providing rapid, direct and resilient access to the main submarine cables and interconnection points.
The general director in Spain of Digital Realty, Robert Assinkreceive a electionomista.es in the center itself after an institutional meeting with the town hall of the town. It is the first time that the company teaches construction to a media. At the moment, the first phase is under construction, which will consist of 7 megawatts (MW) of power, whose forecast is that it is operational in early 2026.
Impact of almost 900 million
The investment will be at 120 million euros, according to Assink Avanza to this newspaper. According to the manager, seven million GDPs are generated for every million investment centers. In this way, the ‘BCN1’ would have a impact of 840 million on the economy of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona throughout your useful life. However, the data center can reach a total power of 14 MW, which would raise the investment to 200 million euros and, therefore, its local impact.
Assink, which is also Vice President of the Employers Spaindcemphasizes that the new Realty Digital Data Center will be at a “key intersection of the Global Internet highway in the Mediterranean region”, connecting the Americas to the west, Africa to the south and the Middle East and Asia to the east. “Barcelona is emerging as an important connectivity hub for greater resilience and diversification of the networks. BCN1 will complement the Marseille Campus of Digital Realty, the main access door of Europe to the rest of the world,” he says.
100% renewable electricity
The new data center will allow companies and networks not only to exchange traffic in the region, but also extend their services and expand their communities of interest on multiple continents.
The installation will have photovoltaic systems for tertiary uses and the electricity supply is 100% renewable –Digital Realty has an agreement with energy-. One of the characteristics that the Assink highlights are the cooling systems, which expand the number of free hours cooling Through a system of Drycooler which avoids the use of capacitors and reduces energy consumption for cooling. At the same time, he details that the use of Drycoolers It allows not consuming processed water, since it is a closed circuit.
Barcelona, Digital Puerto
A report prepared by Foundry with the collaboration of the Chamber of Commerce of Barcelona for De-Cix and Digital Realty, points to a exponential growth in installed capacity of data centers in Barcelona.
In fact, the document points to the city as “Mediterranean Digital Port”. Specifically, in 2025 the total capacity deployed could reach up to 173 MW, according to the analysis. In economic terms, this would mean that the investment would go from the 241 million euros announced by 2023 to 1,047 million euros this year.
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