en.Wedoany.com Reported - Valfortec plans to develop a €300 million (approximately $343.6 million) data center campus in Elche, Alicante Province, Spain. The Valencia-based renewable energy company is leading this project, which is located near the Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport, offering land availability, transport connections, and access to power infrastructure.
According to elEconomista, the company has initiated the administrative process for the complex. The campus is designed with a scalable architecture to meet the growing processing demands driven by cloud computing and artificial intelligence developments. The infrastructure capacity is expected to reach approximately 60 MW, making it one of the largest projects announced to date in the Valencian Community.
Specific details regarding potential clients or pre-commercial agreements have not been disclosed. The project reflects a trend in the Spanish market where energy companies are entering the data center development sector. Power supply availability has become one of the main competitive factors for projects, driving collaboration between digital infrastructure developers and companies with expertise in power generation and management.
The Spanish data center market is currently experiencing strong expansion, but power capacity acquisition remains one of the main constraints for new project development, particularly in more mature markets. In this context, provinces like Alicante are seeking to position themselves as alternatives offering available land, grid access, and more competitive development timelines. These factors, combined with growing demand related to artificial intelligence, are driving the emergence of new digital infrastructure hubs in different regions of Spain.
If the project passes regulatory approvals and obtains the necessary authorizations, the campus developed by Valfortec will help strengthen the Valencian Community's position in Spain's data center ecosystem and expand available capacity for future cloud services and AI deployments.
