The Spanish government is preparing a royal decree with new environmental requirements for data centers, aiming to limit the large number of accumulated projects and ensure only the most sustainable ones proceed. The measure will include stricter conditions on electricity consumption, with hourly monitoring to guarantee the use of renewable energies, surveillance that will be maintained for at least a decade.
The data center sector reacted with strong opposition to the draft, mobilizing to convince the executive to correct the text. Sector companies consider the requirements impossible to meet and are preparing a legal battle if the decree advances without changes.
The data center giants threaten to claim million-euro compensations from the Spanish state if their claims are not met, in a conflict that could result in high costs for the public coffers.
