Spain Proposes 80% Hourly Renewable Rule for Data Centre Grid Access
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The future regulation of data centers in Spain establishes a renewable consumption of 80%. The Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO) has submitted to public consultation a royal decree that imposes, in addition, the highest energy and water efficiency thresholds in the world. According to the text in process, collected by El Periódico de la Energía, the objective is to prevent the expansion of these infras…
Spain has a comfortable problem: too much interest. The combination of abundant renewable energy, available land and favorable climate has made the country one of the preferred destinations of the great technologies to install artificial intelligence infrastructure. Madrid and its surroundings already concentrate several large projects. The government wants to order this avalanche before it arrives and not after. According to Reuters, this same …
Spain proposes 80% hourly renewable rule for data centre grid access
Spain is proposing to make access to scarce electricity-grid capacity conditional on how data centres source and use power, including a requirement to match at least 80% of consumption with additional renewable generation every hour. The proposals would apply principally to data centres with at least 1 MW of grid-access capacity and combine renewable electricity requirements with limits on energy and water use, alongside resilience and digital-s…
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The energy consumed by the data centers that are built in Spain must be renewable in at least 80% and come from newly created facilities, according to the draft Royal Decree submitted since this Thursday to a public audience through the emergency route and that seeks a sustainable and orderly deployment of this type of facilities, large consumers of water and energy.
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