ACS has agreed, through its subsidiary Iridium and jointly with the management company Arcano, to purchase and sell a 6.7-hectare land in Alcalá de Henares (Community of Madrid) with the aim of building a new 50-hectare data center. megawatts (MW).
With this project, ACS enters the data center business in Spain, after accumulating extensive experience in this type of infrastructure in countries such as the United States, Germany, Australia, the Philippines and Indonesia.
This type of center serves as local data storage for global giants such as Amazon, Microsoft or Google, who are required by regulation to store consumer information in Europe in the region in order to preserve national sovereignty.
ACS plans to develop the project over the next five years and expects operations to begin in 2025. It does not inform either the client or the amount of the investment.
The asset is located in what is known as the Henares corridor, an area that has become a target for both operators and hyperscalers, thanks to its connections through the main fiber axis on the peninsula, which runs along the A- 2 and that connects Madrid with Barcelona.
The company chaired by Florentino Pérez considers that this new project “consolidates” the global position of the ACS group in digital infrastructures and highlights “the potential of the Spanish market.”
Among its new markets, in addition to data centers, are the development of projects in other new technologies such as batteries, the biopharmaceutical segment, green hydrogen or sustainable mobility.
Hochtief, its German subsidiary, has also signed a contract in Poland to build a data center in consortium with the local company Adamietz Warszawa for Data4 Group, a European data center operator and investor.
In the United States, its subsidiary Turner has already promoted several data centers in that country, to the point of already obtaining a turnover in that segment of 3.6 billion dollars (3.36 billion euros).
In addition, its Australian subsidiary Cimic won a contract in Indonesia last year to build a data center for 66 million euros, and Hochtief will also do the same in Germany in alliance with the Palladio fund for more than 100 million euros.
This week, Cimic was awarded a contract from ST Telemedia Global Data Centers for the development of the first phase of construction of a data center in Quezon City, in the Philippines.
