The event was attended by the President of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, the Mayor of Puertollano, Miguel Ángel Ruiz, the President of Solaria, Enrique Díaz-Tejeiro, and the President of Datasection, Norihiko Ishihara, among other authorities.
The agreement foresees the supply of up to 200 MW of energy and the use of the Spanish company’s own facilities in Puertollano. In the first phase, it will have 40 MW of power.
Thanks to this project, more than 100 jobs will be created and the initial investment will be close to 500 million euros.
September 17th, 2024
Solaria has presented today at its industrial facilities in Puertollano (Ciudad Real) the agreement it has signed with the Japanese technology company Datasection to develop an artificial intelligence data center. The event was attended by the President of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, the Mayor of Puertollano, Miguel Ángel Ruiz, together with the President of Solaria, Enrique Díaz-Tejeiro and the President of Datasection, Norihiko Ishihara.
This project will create 100 jobs and will have an initial investment of close to 500 million euros. This agreement foresees the achievement of a supply of up to 200 MW and the use of up to 100,000 m2 of surface area in Solaria’s own industrial facilities in Puertollano, which has the so-called “clean rooms”, rooms with a high level of insulation and air quality that in the past were used for the manufacture of photovoltaic cells and that in the coming months will house the racks of the company Super Micro and the latest generation of NVIDIA micro chips that will be the brain of the first artificial intelligence data center in the EU. In the first phase it will have 40 MW of power and will occupy the entire surface of the clean rooms.
The president of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, has celebrated the arrival of this data center to the community and has affirmed that he is enormously grateful to Solaria “a reference company, what is known as brand Spain”. “It is a pride to turn Puertollano once again into the capital of new energy” he has affirmed.
“We are welcoming the installation of a project that marks the beginning of a stage of innovation and progress for Puertollano. This milestone not only puts our city on the map of cutting-edge technological development, but also positions us as a benchmark in the field of digital transformation” said Miguel Ángel Ruiz, Mayor of Puertollano.
According to Darío López, CEO of Solaria: “This data center will bring progress and wealth through the creation of more than 100 jobs and the investment of almost 500 million euros in this first phase. This agreement gives a great boost to our new data center division that we created last May and demonstrates the transformation and evolution of our business model in the 22 years of Solaria’s history”.
“This project, one of the largest artificial intelligence data centers, will have great potential in the future. Puertollano is a safe bet” according to Norihito Isihara, CEO of Dataection.
Shinichiro Miyaguchi, First Secretary of Economy of the Embassy of Japan, has also celebrated this agreement recognizing “the opening of new beginnings towards the future”.
Solaria disembarked last May in the data center business, through the creation of Solaria Data Center, whose objective is to use its own electrical infrastructures linked to its power generation projects in operation, construction and development, for the deployment of these projects.
In this sense, Solaria is firmly committed to the development of this new line of business through this project, which will become the first artificial intelligence data center in the European Union.
