Spain eases energy rules in revised data-center proposal
Spain’s October 26 proposal would raise the main data-center threshold from 1 MW to more than 10 MW, double the renewable-capacity timing window and add a conditional path to the hourly clean-power target. The measure is still proposed, and its revised legal text remains unverified.
Spain’s government has revised its proposed data-center decree, raising the threshold for its principal requirements from 1 megawatt in the August draft to more than 10 MW. According to an account of the October 26 proposal, the change would leave fewer projects subject to the main obligations. The decree is still only a proposal, and the revised legal text was not available for independent review.
The August proposal called for each new megawatt consumed to be matched by new renewable capacity installed within the previous 18 months. It also required renewable power to cover at least 80% of electricity use in every hour of operation.
The October account says the renewable-capacity lookback would double to 36 months, while the 80% hourly target would remain. It also says qualifying solar generation would face no age limit.
The reported revision would offer a transition of up to five years to reach the hourly target under several conditions. The October draft still needs to be checked to determine whether the threshold is strictly above 10 MW or at least 10 MW, which provisions it covers, and the precise exceptions, conditions and transition milestones.
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