Solaria Energy and Environment, a Spanish green energy generation company listed on the IBEX-35, has announced a strategic alliance with the Japanese technology company Datasection to develop an innovative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Data Center. This center will be located in Solaria’s former industrial facilities in Puertollano, Ciudad Real.
Datasection, a Japanese technology company listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and with the Japanese telecommunications firm KDDI as its main shareholder, joins this project with the support of key strategic partners such as Foxconn and Supermicro, and the technological support of NVIDIA. This agreement marks a significant milestone for both companies, which aim to implement an advanced infrastructure for processing and storing AI-related data.
The agreement stipulates that the new data center will have a power supply of up to 200 MW and will use approximately 100,000 square meters of Solaria’s facilities in Puertollano. These facilities, which were previously used for the production of photovoltaic cells, will be transformed to house state-of-the-art server racks provided by Supermicro and NVIDIA chips, making it the first AI data center in the European Union.
This development is part of Solaria’s recent expansion into the data center sector, with the creation of a new division dedicated to this area. The company has already partnered with Datasection to replicate the model of its AI data center in Osaka, Japan, the largest in Asia, which will be operational by the end of this year.
Darío López, CEO of Solaria, and Norihiko Ishihara, CEO of Datasection, were responsible for signing the agreement, marking the beginning of a collaboration that promises to boost technological development and data processing capacity in the region.
With this new center, Solaria and Datasection not only aim to advance in the field of artificial intelligence, but also to strengthen the technological infrastructure of the European Union, consolidating Spain as a strategic hub in the field of data centers and technological innovation.