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Vantage Data Centers Villanueva de Gállego campus
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Spain · 1 project · Last reported
Summary
Planned hyperscale data center campus by US operator Vantage Data Centers with the Aragonese company Desarrollos Ecoindustriales La Cartuja, on roughly 40 to 48 hectares of industrial land south of Villanueva de Gállego (Zaragoza), beside the A-23 motorway near Universidad San Jorge. The partners asked for regional general-interest status in May 2025, and the Aragón government approved it in September 2025 for a EUR 3.2 billion investment over ten years in five phases, with 90 MW of supply already granted through Endesa. In March 2026 the project was still seeking authorisation, with initial documents filed with the regional environmental agency (Inaga) and eight data buildings planned.
Source record as of 2026-03-20 · Details and sources
Location
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Projects (1)
Vantage Data Centers Villanueva de Gállego campus
Announced last observed as of · Reported status
Location: Villanueva de Gállego, Zaragoza, Aragón, ES. Town coordinates from the Villanueva de Gállego Wikipedia article. Sources place the site south of the town along the A-23 (Huesca motorway), opposite the San Miguel industrial estate and close to the Universidad San Jorge campus; no parcel boundary is published. Libertad Digital; El Español; Wikipedia
Capacity, investment and other figures
| Measure | Value | Scope | As of | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Investment | 3,200,000,000 EUR | Announced · Campus | 2025-09-12 | Announced by the president of Aragón when the DIGA was approved; elDiario.es had reported in May 2025 a joint investment above this amount. | elDiario.es; Libertad Digital |
| Power capacity | 90 MW | Contracted · Campus · Grid connection | 2025-09-12 | Electricity supply reported as already granted through Endesa; no planned full build-out capacity in MW was found. | Libertad Digital |
| Land area | about 40 hectares | Reported · Campus | 2025-09-12 | elDiario.es; Libertad Digital | |
| Land area | about 48 hectares | Reported · Campus | 2026-03-20 | Later figure from El Español's account of the environmental filing; it differs from the 40 hectares reported in 2025. | El Español |
| Buildings | 8 count | Planned · Campus | 2026-03-20 | Data buildings; work would begin with site urbanisation, the substation and the first building, with the rest in later phases. | El Español |
| Jobs construction | 1,200 count | Planned · Phase · First three years of construction | 2025-09-12 | Libertad Digital adds 600 to 750 workers a year from the fourth year to the end of the decade. | Libertad Digital |
| Jobs permanent | 520 count | Planned · Campus | 2025-09-12 | Direct jobs at full operation, starting from about 180 in the first three years. | elDiario.es; Libertad Digital |
Companies and organizations
| Name | Role | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vantage Data Centers | Developer | elDiario.es; Libertad Digital; El Español | |
| Desarrollos Ecoindustriales La Cartuja | Developer | Aragonese partner company promoting the project with Vantage; elDiario.es says it is made up of Atalaya Generación Eólica and Posidonia Inversiones, and Libertad Digital describes the campus as part of an eco-industrial park it promotes. | elDiario.es; Libertad Digital |
| Endesa | Utility | Reported to have granted 90 MW of electricity supply for the project. | Libertad Digital |
| Gobierno de Aragón | Government | Received the general-interest request in May 2025 and approved a Declaración de Interés General de Aragón (DIGA) for the project in September 2025. | elDiario.es; Libertad Digital |
Timeline
| Date | Event | Actual or planned | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-05 | Announced | Actual | The project became public in May 2025, when the promoters asked the Aragón government on 14 May to declare it of general interest. | elDiario.es |
| 2025-09 | Other | Actual | The Aragón Governing Council approved a DIGA (declaration of general interest) for the project. | Libertad Digital |
| 2026 | Construction started | Planned | In May 2025 elDiario.es reported construction was planned to start in summer 2026; in March 2026 the project was still awaiting authorisation. | elDiario.es |
Power supply
| Type | Description | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Grid | 90 MW of supply reported as granted through Endesa. | Libertad Digital |
| Wind | The promoters plan to integrate local wind generation. | Libertad Digital |
| Solar | The promoters plan to integrate local photovoltaic generation. | Libertad Digital |
| Battery storage | Energy storage systems are part of the stated plan. | Libertad Digital |
Accounts of the layout differ: elDiario.es (May 2025) described three data centers, while El Español (March 2026) describes one campus of eight data buildings to reach full operation in about a decade. El Español reports the initial filing estimates about 5,000 cubic metres of water a year, mostly for staff, with closed-loop cooling. Amazon Web Services already runs a campus in the same town. No Vantage or government primary release was opened; the DIGA should be checked in the Boletín Oficial de Aragón.
Sources for these details
- Un gigante de los 'data centers' ligado a un amigo de Trump desembarca en Zaragoza aliado con empresarios aragoneses — elDiario.es; 2025-05-15 · Archived source
- Vantage levantará un centro de datos de hiperescala en Aragón con 3.200 millones de inversión — Libertad Digital; 2025-09-12
- ¿De dónde sacará Vantage los 5.000 metros cúbicos de agua que necesita para sus centros de datos en Villanueva de Gállego? — El Español; 2026-03-20
- Villanueva de Gállego — Wikipedia; publication date not stated · Archived source
- Companies
- Developer: Vantage Data Centers (unknown scope) evidence
- Developer: Vantage Data Centers (unknown scope) evidence
- Developer: Vantage Data Centers (unknown scope) evidence
- Developer: Desarrollos Ecoindustriales La Cartuja (unknown scope) evidence
- Developer: Desarrollos Ecoindustriales La Cartuja (unknown scope) evidence
- Utility: Endesa (unknown scope) evidence
- Government: Gobierno de Aragón (unknown scope) evidence
- Government: Gobierno de Aragón (unknown scope) evidence
Source and location review
- Status source
- ¿De dónde sacará Vantage los 5.000 metros cúbicos de agua que necesita para sus centros de datos en Villanueva de Gállego? evidence row
El Español · published 2026-03-20 · News - Locator
- Locality reference only · Compiled location reference · locality evidence
- Source checks
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Location details
- Coordinates
- 41.76700, -0.81700
- Geometry licence
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- Use scope
- Locality reference only
- Scope class
- locality
- Authority
- Compiled location reference
- Source entity
- Project
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- Derivation
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- Precision scope
- Town coordinates from the Villanueva de Gállego Wikipedia article. Sources place the site south of the town along the A-23 (Huesca motorway), opposite the San Miguel industrial estate and close to the Universidad San Jorge campus; no parcel boundary is published.
- Horizontal uncertainty
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The source record provides no measured horizontal uncertainty; original coordinate precision and note are preserved.
- Geometry evidence
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A locator places the site on the map. It is not a building footprint, a construction extent or a surveyed boundary unless the use scope is an official boundary, and even then it is a parcel or permit boundary.
Evidence
Sources are linked, not redistributed; each keeps its own terms. An archived copy is a lookup for the Wayback Machine capture nearest the retrieval date and may be unavailable or differ from what was reviewed. Each hash states what it covers; imported factual records are not publisher-page captures.
| Title | Publisher | Roles | Published | Retrieved | Licence | Attribution | Content hash (SHA-256) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Un gigante de los 'data centers' ligado a un amigo de Trump desembarca en Zaragoza aliado con empresarios aragoneses Archived copy | elDiario.es News | Imported: Record, Metric: Investment, Metric: Jobs Permanent, Metric: Land Area, Milestone: Announced, Milestone: Construction Started, Role: Developer, Role: Government | source-terms-not-recorded | elDiario.es | cc75179216d22de8de4c013e357d077fba8f9e0be2c351c2d0958cefa7fe4ad2Factual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| Vantage levantará un centro de datos de hiperescala en Aragón con 3.200 millones de inversión Archived copy | Libertad Digital News | Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record, Metric: Investment, Metric: Jobs Construction, Metric: Jobs Permanent, Metric: Land Area, Metric: Power Capacity, Milestone: Other, Power Source: Battery Storage, Power Source: Grid, Power Source: Solar, Power Source: Wind, Role: Developer, Role: Government, Role: Utility | source-terms-not-recorded | Libertad Digital | 4eeea91a96c1d858a7d7d00670479c9887541a5469b5a0c6b8c3e3c6e3a1c4c2Factual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| Villanueva de Gállego Archived copy | Wikipedia Other | Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record | not stated | source-terms-not-recorded | Wikipedia | 54061053eded68272b130de58e8c19b24ca78c53d3803a486c7f2ac496dc849fFactual source record; not the publisher page | |
| ¿De dónde sacará Vantage los 5.000 metros cúbicos de agua que necesita para sus centros de datos en Villanueva de Gállego? Archived copy | El Español News | Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record, Imported: Status, Metric: Buildings, Metric: Land Area, Role: Developer | source-terms-not-recorded | El Español | c4a74a513c4b1149e4f7b425592ab2d739fb67c69fda45ed2a44cab2b079807bFactual source record; not the publisher page |
Cite this site
Kyars, K. (2026). Vantage Data Centers Villanueva de Gállego campus [site vcc-site-028ea637886484fbc894]. In Data Center Atlas (2026-10-27) [Data set]. https://kiankyars.github.io/datacenter-atlas/sites/vcc-site-028ea637886484fbc894/
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