Alto Infrastructure has broken ground on a new data center in Granada, Spain.

Just a few days after the Andalusian Regional Government announced the start of construction on the region’s first next-generation data center, Alto Infrastructure – the company formerly known as Sierra DC – has unveiled details of SP01, a campus specifically designed for artificial intelligence (AI), high-performance computing (HPC), and cloud services that will attract a potential investment of over €3bn ($3.43bn).

The project, located in the Industrial, Technological, and Innovation Area (CITAI) of Escúzar (Granada), aims to rank among Spain’s largest data centers. The investment includes approximately €700 million ($799.87m) for infrastructure development, while the remainder will go toward the deployment of servers, GPUs, and advanced computing platforms to be installed by the campus’s future clients.

Last week, an official ceremony was held, attended by the Andalusian Regional Minister of Universities, Research, and Innovation, José Carlos Gómez Villamandos, who highlighted the initiative as an example of the regional strategy to attract high-value-added technology investments and consolidate Andalusia as a hub for the digital economy.

The first phase will become operational in the summer of 2027 with 10MW of IT capacity, which will increase to 25MW before the end of that same year. Full development is scheduled for late 2029, when the campus will reach 100MW of electrical power, equivalent to 70MW of IT capacity.

The facility will incorporate direct-to-chip liquid cooling systems and will be able to support densities of up to 250kW per rack.

Gísli Kr., CEO of Alto Infrastructure, said: “The most advanced models demand ever-increasing processing capacity and, with it, power densities far higher than those of a traditional data center. We designed SP01 to respond to that evolution from day one.”

This piece was automatically translated from DCD’s Spanish site and edited by a member of DCD staff.