Alibaba in early talks with Spain’s Solaria over power for a data centre
Alibaba has held preliminary talks with Spanish solar producer Solaria about supplying power for a data centre at Puertollano, south of Madrid. Spain is drafting rules that would require data centre operators to be established in the EU and keep all data inside European borders.
Alibaba has held talks with a Spanish solar producer that would supply power to a data centre in Spain. Spain is drafting rules that would require data centre operators to be established in the European Union. Both things are happening at once.
The conversations with Solaria are preliminary, according to people familiar with the matter, as Bloomberg reported. The plant under consideration is at Puertollano, about 240 km south of Madrid. Both companies declined to comment.
The plan would run on renewable power and sits earlier than the data centres Alibaba announced last week. The company has spoken to other suppliers too.
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