Spanish renewable energy developer Solaria has been given the green light to connect two planned data centers to the nation’s energy network by the local grid operator.

Solaria recently announced that Spanish grid operator Red Eléctrica de España had confirmed the feasibility of access and connection of two projects totaling 438MW.

Red has given Solaria the greenlight for a 213MW grid connection for a data center in southern Madrid, and a 225MW connection for a data center in the Basque Country.

Further details on the planned facilities at each location haven’t been shared.

Founded in 2002, the company currently has an energy portfolio of 1.7GW in three geographical areas of Spain: Madrid-Castilla-La Mancha, Garoña-Basque Country, and Catalonia. The company is currently in the process of constructing 1.4 GW of photovoltaic plants in Spain and is targeting 14.3GW of energy capacity across Europe by 2028 and 18GW by 2030.

In May 2024, Solaria announced the launch of a new data center subsidiary. At the time, it said it had 155MW of grid connections and was requesting another 860MW.

In September, the firm announced that it was building a 200MW artificial intelligence data center with Japanese technology company Datasection in Solaria’s industrial facilities in Puertollano converted to data center use.

In November, Solaria said it was in negotiations with several American and European players to create joint ventures to develop cloud and artificial intelligence data centers.