Recently, EdgeMode signed a cooperation agreement with the Mora City Council of Castile La Mancha Autonomous Community in Spain to jointly develop a 300 MW large-scale data center project called DC Malpica, with a total investment of 3 billion euros, approximately 3.4 billion US dollars. After the project is put into operation, it will focus on supporting AI training, high-performance computing, and cloud service businesses. Currently, financing and administrative approval procedures are being synchronized.

This cooperation document is valid for 24 months, and the local government has provided clear administrative support throughout the entire process to promote the application for strategic interest project qualifications, obtain approval through the green channel, and significantly shorten the early implementation cycle.

Solid oxide fuel cell microgrid solves power supply pain points

Unlike traditional data centers that rely entirely on the public power grid, this project directly adopts a solid oxide fuel cell microgrid as the core power supply solution. This technology comes from EdgeMode's cooperation with industry suppliers earlier this year, and will cover all of the company's computing power sites in Spain in the future. It can be flexibly expanded and deployed with business expansion.

The most direct effect of this solution is to significantly shorten the power capacity delivery cycle of AI data centers, without having to wait for a long time for the expansion and renovation of the public power grid, just in time for the current shortage of AI computing power in Europe.

Leveraging the magnetic attraction effect of regional industries

DC Malpica is located adjacent to Madrid and is not squeezed into the core computing power cluster of Madrid city, avoiding the bottleneck of land shortage and power saturation in the core area. Currently, Madrid and Barcelona are well-known AI digital hubs in Europe, and the computing power demand of a large number of leading technology companies continues to overflow. Mora has just taken on this wave of overflow construction demand.

The local mayor explicitly mentioned that after the implementation of this project, it will form a significant industrial magnetic attraction effect, attracting upstream and downstream enterprises with computing power to gradually enter, driving local employment and tax growth, and upgrading Mora from an ordinary town to one of the core nodes of Spain's AI infrastructure. EdgeMode's long-term plan is not limited to this one site. In the future, it plans to deploy 8 computing power sites in Spain, with a total grid connected capacity exceeding 4.35 gigawatts, to create a full range of Tier 3 AI exclusive data center parks. Keywords: large data centers, computing power clusters

Industry data shows that the data center market size in Spain has reached 3.3 billion US dollars by 2025 and is expected to soar to 8.83 billion US dollars by 2031. A large amount of construction demand is spreading from core cities to peripheral areas, and the Mora project has just stepped into the core window of this industry growth.Editor/Cheng Liting