Spanish renewable energy firm Solaria is to develop a data center at one of its solar farms.
Citing a person familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reports Solaria has signed a memorandum of understanding with Japanese company Datasection Inc. to build a 200MW data center.
The facility will span 100,000 square meters (1 million sq ft) at one of Solaria’s plants in Puertollano, a municipality in the province of Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha.
The plant is equipped with clean rooms - highly insulated spaces used in the past to manufacture photovoltaic cells - that would be adapted to house the technological components of the data center, Bloomberg said.
According to the company’s website, the Puertollano rooftop solar site launched in 2010 and totals 640kW.
The companies declined to comment to the publication.
In May, Spanish energy company Solaria announced the launch of a new data center subsidiary. The company said at the time it had 155MW of grid connections and was requesting another 860MW. The company didn’t provide any locations or specifications of planned data centers.
Founded in 2002, Solaria operates dozens of solar farms around Spain, and also has sites in Portugal, Sardinia, and mainland Italy, as well as Greece and Uruguay. The company has around 1.7GW of capacity in operation, and is due to reach 4.3GW by 2026.
Founded in 2000, Japan’s Datasection provides data science services, including business intelligence tool construction and data analysis algorithm development. It owns a portfolio of data companies.
