Lleida has become the first Spanish city to ban data centers.

As reported by Cronica, the council has said data centers do not create enough qualified jobs and consume too much energy and water, with the mayor Fèlix Larrosa adding that they “do not contribute to the local economy.”

The city has already rejected the opening of multiple data centers. The publication added that an unnamed company had even purchased rural land for a data center build, but the council refused to change the use of the land.

Industry expert José María Guilleuma, director of data centers at consulting firm Colliers, said the council’s claims are based on misinformation. He argued that data centers would provide indirect labor and would act as an anchor for the industry in Lleida.

Guillema added that concerns about water and energy could be applied to the entire industry, including battery parks and hydrogen generators.

Located in the west of Catalonia, the city is the capital of Segrià County. There are currently no data centers in the city, according to Datacenter Map. On the contrary, its neighbor Aragon has been trying to attract data center investment. The local government has thus far raised around €33 billion ($34.3bn) from Blackstone, Microsoft, AWS, and Box2Bit.

In June last year, Microsoft pledged to invest €6.9 billion ($7.16bn) in developing new data centers in Aragon.

Elsewhere in Spain, Meta’s plans to build a $1.1 billion data center in the Toledo region have been heavily criticized. The facility is expected to consume more than 600 million liters of water in an area at risk of drought.