en.Wedoany.com Reported - Alto Infrastructure has launched the SP01 data center campus project in Granada, Spain, with a planned total investment of over €3 billion. Approximately €700 million will be used for campus development, while the remaining funds will be allocated to installing servers, GPUs, and advanced computing platforms.
This project marks the first step in Alto Infrastructure's strategy to build a high-capacity data center platform in Spain and Southern Europe. The market is experiencing significant acceleration, driven by growing demand for artificial intelligence and computing power.
SP01 is specifically designed to meet the requirements of future generations of AI processors. The first phase is scheduled to become operational in the summer of 2027, with an IT load of 10 MW and a total power capacity of 15 MW. By the end of that year, the IT load will increase to 25 MW, with total power reaching 40 MW. The entire campus development is expected to be completed by 2029, at which point total power will reach 100 MW, equivalent to approximately 70 MW of IT load. With this capacity, the complex will become one of the largest data centers currently planned in Spain.
One of SP01's differentiating features is the adoption of direct-to-chip liquid cooling, a technology designed to dissipate the heat generated by the most advanced AI platforms. This architecture can support densities of up to 250 kW per rack, far exceeding levels common in traditional data centers, thereby accommodating future-generation systems such as the NVIDIA Vera Rubin series.
Gísli Kr., CEO of Alto Infrastructure, stated that infrastructure demands are evolving rapidly, with the most advanced models requiring ever-increasing processing power, leading to much higher energy densities than traditional data centers. The company designed SP01 from day one to handle this evolution.
In terms of energy, SP01 has secured a power supply capacity of 100 MW, a competitive advantage in a context where many projects struggle to obtain power capacity. According to Colliers, 85% of distribution nodes in Spain are saturated, and 92% of connection capacity has already been committed. Additionally, the campus will be fully powered by renewable energy and will abandon traditional evaporative cooling systems, adopting a technical architecture that minimizes water consumption, aiming to reduce cooling-related water usage to nearly zero.
The choice of Granada was based on available land, energy resources, and the technology ecosystem being consolidated in the province. The data center will be located in the City of Industry, Technology, and Innovation (CITAI), which will also host the IFMIF-DONES project, one of Europe's largest scientific projects for fusion energy research. The company believes that the combination of power capacity, international connectivity, and talent from the University of Granada positions the region favorably to attract investments related to the digital economy.
Gísli Kr. stated that Europe needs new computing capacity to address AI growth, and Spain has excellent conditions to attract such investments. Alto Infrastructure aims to help the country play a significant role in this new phase of technological transformation and become the leading AI data center platform in Southern Europe. The launch of SP01 coincides with strong market growth. In Spain, Colliers estimates that approximately 360 MW of IT load is currently operational, and the country will add over 2,780 MW of IT load by 2029, with Andalusia expected to concentrate a significant portion of this growth.
