Digital Realty has launched its first data centre in Barcelona, named BCN1, located in the innovation hub of Sant Adrià de Besòs. The facility will have a capacity of 14 MW and joins the company’s network of data centres on the Iberian Peninsula, where it already operates four sites in Madrid and has announced a new centre in Lisbon.
BCN1 expands PlatformDIGITAL, the company’s global data centre platform, focused on data deployments, cloud computing and artificial intelligence. Digital Realty, a signatory to the Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact, stated that the centre incorporates energy-efficient systems and cooling, the use of renewable energy, and backup generators fuelled by HVO100, a renewable-source biodiesel.
The data centre is designed to facilitate connectivity with various network providers and is situated in a location linked to digital traffic between the Americas, Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and Asia. According to information provided by the company, Barcelona complements Digital Realty’s campus in Marseille and helps to diversify the regional network, supported by submarine cables and cross-border fibre-optic connections to Marseille and Frankfurt.
The launch comes at a time of growing international connectivity in the Iberian Peninsula, driven by the arrival of new submarine fibre-optic cables. Among the landing points cited by Digital Realty are 2Africa and Medusa in Barcelona, two infrastructure projects aimed at improving digital connections in the Mediterranean, as well as Marea, Grace Hopper and EllaLink in other locations across the peninsula, which connect Europe with the Americas and other international markets.
“Barcelona is establishing itself as a leading digital gateway to the Mediterranean. Digital Realty’s campus in Barcelona places us at the heart of this transformation, built to the highest sustainability standards. Together with our campuses in Madrid and Lisbon, we are proud to offer our clients the most interconnected and environmentally responsible regional platform on the Iberian Peninsula”, said Fabrice Coquio, senior vice president and managing director of Europe Med at Digital Realty.
