Spanish energy firm Solaria Energia has formally launched its European sustainable data center platform.

News on the platform arose last week, when it was reported that the company had tapped global investment bank Goldman Sachs to find a financial partner for the platform.

The platform includes approximately 3.4GW of secured grid power across 400 hectares (990 acres) spanning Spain, Italy, Germany, and the UK. In addition, the company has reportedly requested access to an additional 5GW of power and aims to find a financial partner for the project before summer next year.

As part of the announcement, Solaria also reported that it signed a deal with data center developer Merlin, which includes a 225MW data center that ensures grid access and the required electrical infrastructure. As part of the deal, the company also inked a 15-year solar Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for 445MW of power with the real estate developer.

“Solaria takes another step forward in its transformation into an integrated energy and digital operator. With our new PPAs, European expansion and entry into the data center and storage businesses, we reinforce our commitment to the energy transition and Europe’s technological independence,” said José Arturo Díaz-Tejeiro Larrañaga, CEO of Solaria.

Solaria was founded in 2002 and operates dozens of solar installations across Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Uruguay. In total, the company has around 1.6GW of installed solar capacity and more than 1.4GW under construction. It is also developing wind and battery energy storage projects, with a goal of reaching 14GW by 2028 and 18GW by 2030.

The company first entered the data center market last year with the formation of Solaria Data Center. According to reports at the time, the company had been granted connection requests for more than 150MW of capacity from the Spanish grid operator Red Eléctrica.

Following this, in March of this year, the company received the green light from Red Eléctrica to connect 225MW for a planned data center in the Basque Country. In the same week, Solaria announced that it had 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.