Step 4 · Sell
See what it sells for
Price, fill and contract terms, as scenarios.
Markets and operators: who is building where
The pipeline, the grid, the power, the latency and the rules of a market, and the operators building in it. Counts and dated figures, from the tracker and the official sources.
Data centres in Spain
At a glance: Spain
- Pipeline projects
- 51
- 23 permitted or being built
- Checked 19 Oct 2026
- New grid connections
- Rationed
- concurso de acceso de demanda, in force since 17 Jul 2025. Nationwide, transmission
- Checked 23 Oct 2026
- Wholesale power price
- 67€/MWh
- Day-ahead, 2025 mean, Spain
- Calendar year 2025
- Grid carbon intensity
- 154g CO₂/kWh
- Yearly average, Spain
- Latest full year
- Next EU rule date
- 14 Dec 2026
- The EU Commission’s minimum performance standards consultation and call for evidence closes
- Applies EU-wide
- Latency to nearest major hub
- 11 ms
- Round trip, Madrid to Paris
- Mapped fibre route, minimum
On 19 October 2026 the pipeline tracker lists 51 data-centre projects in Spain, and 23 of them are permitted or being built.
Data centres in Spain in October 2026
The tracker follows 51 data centre projects of 1 MW or more in Spain, 23 of them permitted or being built. 38 developers are behind them, led by Merlin Properties (7), Amazon Web Services (3) and EdgeMode (3).
Projects by stage
What the capacity figures measure
Each capacity is on its own stated basis; never added.
Who is building in Spain
And 28 other developers with one project each. A joint venture counts once per partner. All operators and developers.
Where the data centres are in Spain
What changed
23 milestones in the last 90 days; the newest is from Oct 2026.
Power and grid in Spain
Rationed
New grid connections are rationed (nationwide, transmission, since 17 Jul 2025). Checked 23 Oct 2026. Every country’s grid connections.
Over a year, country level
- Grid carbon, latest full-year average
- 154g CO₂/kWh
- 13th cleanest of 30 countries; 75% renewable or nuclear
- Business electricity price, latest full year
- 126€/MWh
- 8th cheapest of 26; wholesale is 71% of it
- Wholesale power, 2025 average
- 67€/MWh
- 5th cheapest of 30
Climate at Madrid
- Hours a year above 27 °C dry-bulb
- 1,117h
- mean of 2016 to 2025
- Hours a year above 32 °C dry-bulb
- 441h
- worst year 508 h
- Hours a year above 20 °C wet-bulb
- 63h
- limit for evaporative cooling
Hourly reanalysis at the city’s grid cell, 2016 to 2025.
Annual averages are national, for the latest full year.
Fibre latency from Madrid
| To | Round trip, minimum | Path length | Path |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lisbon | 5.2 ms | 536 km | Mapped fibre route |
| Marseille | 10 ms | 1,052 km | Mapped fibre route |
| Paris | 11 ms | 1,149 km | Mapped fibre route |
| Milan | 15 ms | 1,480 km | Mapped fibre route |
| London | 15 ms | 1,542 km | Mapped fibre route |
| Amsterdam | 16 ms | 1,600 km | Mapped fibre route |
| Frankfurt | 17 ms | 1,712 km | Mapped fibre route |
| Dublin | 20 ms | 2,057 km | Mapped fibre route |
Floors for light in fibre, city centre to city centre; operator fibre adds to this.
Rules and dates
| Where | Rule | Status |
|---|---|---|
| EU | Reporting duty from 500 kW installed IT power, 7 items and 24 indicators, next report 15 May 2027 | In force |
| EU | Waste-heat use above 1 MW total rated energy input, unless a cost-benefit assessment shows it is not feasible | In force |
| EU | Common rating scheme adopted 21 Sep 2026; in Parliament and Council scrutiny, extended 6 Oct | Adopted, not in force |
| Spain | Draft Royal Decree: grid permits from 1 MW of access power tied to PUE 1.15 or lower and 80% renewable supply matched hour by hour; hearing closed 10 Sep 2026, no approval date | Proposed |
Next dates
- 14 Dec 2026the EU Commission’s minimum performance standards consultation and call for evidence closes
- 15 May 2027EU database and French reports due (every year)
- 11 Oct 2027EU deadline under Article 11 of the Energy Efficiency Directive for a certified energy management system at enterprises above 85 TJ (23.6 GWh) of annual energy consumption
Formal refusals and bans since 2025
No area-wide rule recorded for Spain.
11 decisions on single sites since 2025, not listed here.
Decisions from 1 Jan 2025; statuses checked 21 Oct 2026. A market with none recorded is not a low risk market.
Projects of 1 MW or more, announced to under construction, not yet fully operating; a metro includes its region. Capacities are never added, and no project is listed. Grid: new-connection status from the grid connection tracker. Over a year: national averages, latest full year. Latency: light in fibre over the mapped land route, else the straight line. Sources, 5 official bodies, checked 23 October 2026: BOE (Spanish official gazette), Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5), EUR-Lex (Official Journal of the EU), MITECO, Red Eléctrica.