Spanish renewable energy developer Solaria has been given the green light to connect another data center to the nation’s energy network.

Spanish grid operator Red Eléctrica de España has approved the feasibility of access and connection of 225MW of demand for supply to a planned data center in the Basque Country.

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

Solaria said it now has around 1GW of data capacity in its pipeline, following a number of grid connection authorizations across Spain.

Founded in 2002, Solaria 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.

Last month, Red gave Solaria the green light for a 213MW grid connection for a data center in southern Madrid and a 225MW connection for a data center in the Basque Country. This week the company gained approval for the connection of two more data centers totaling 130MW in Madrid.

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

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