Alibaba in early talks with Spain's Solaria over data centre power

Alibaba has held preliminary talks with Spanish solar producer Solaria about supplying power to a data centre in Puertollano, about 240 km south of Madrid. The 200MW project on 100,000 square metres would run on renewable power. Spain is drafting a decree requiring data centre operators to be established in the EU and keep all data inside European borders.

• Talks between Alibaba and Solaria are preliminary; both companies declined to comment
• Puertollano project: 200MW on 100,000 sq m, built into former photovoltaic clean rooms
• Spain would require 80% hourly renewables for sites above 1MW or loss of grid connection
• Spain's data centre capacity to grow from 439MW in 2025 to near 2,537MW by 2030