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Green IT Aragón data center campus (SAMCA), Luceni
Announced
Spain · 1 project · Last reported
Summary
Three-building data center campus planned by the SAMCA group in Luceni, Zaragoza province, paired with renewing and expanding SAMCA's nearby wind farms to supply it. Announced in April 2025 at EUR 2,627 million including the renewable generation. Red Eléctrica has permitted 131 MW for a first phase, which could rise to 181 MW and finally 300 MW. A technical annex describes three identical buildings of 72 MW of IT load, each drawing up to 100 MW from the grid. The regional plan received initial approval in December 2025; in October 2026 site works were expected by late 2026 or in 2027, with the first phase targeted for 2028.
Source record as of 2026-10-05 · Details and sources
Location
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Projects (1)
Green IT Aragón data center campus (SAMCA), Luceni
Announced last observed as of · Reported status
Location: Luceni, Zaragoza, Aragon, ES. Luceni municipal centroid from its Wikipedia article. The technical annex places all three data centers in Luceni municipality; associated grid and wind works extend into Rueda de Jalón, Plasencia de Jalón and Pedrola. No cited source gives site coordinates. Gobierno de Aragón; Gobierno de Aragón (plan documentation filed by the promoter); Wikipedia
Capacity, investment and other figures
| Measure | Value | Scope | As of | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Power capacity | 300 MW | Planned · Campus · Grid connection | 2025-04-28 | Final-phase capacity under the Red Eléctrica permits described at announcement. | elDiario.es |
| Power capacity | 131 MW | Permitted · Phase · Grid connection · Phase 1 | 2025-04-28 | A second phase could rise to 181 MW. | elDiario.es |
| Power capacity | 72 MW | Planned · Phase · It load · Each of three identical data center buildings | 2025-11 | Gobierno de Aragón (plan documentation filed by the promoter) | |
| Power capacity | up to 100 MW | Planned · Phase · Grid connection · Each of three identical data center buildings | 2025-11 | Maximum active power each data center would draw from the transmission grid. | Gobierno de Aragón (plan documentation filed by the promoter) |
| Investment | 2,627,000,000 EUR | Announced · Campus | 2025-04-28 | Includes the renewable generation; El Español says the figure rose from EUR 2,000 million when the renewable supply was added. | elDiario.es; El Español |
| Buildings | 3 count | Planned · Campus | 2025-11 | Named Ribera Alta del Ebro, Ribera Alta del Ebro II and Atalaya del Ebro in the plan documents. | Gobierno de Aragón; Gobierno de Aragón (plan documentation filed by the promoter); elDiario.es |
| Jobs construction | up to 2,300 count | Planned · Campus | 2025-04-28 | Direct and indirect jobs during construction, per the regional government. | elDiario.es |
| Jobs permanent | up to 320 count | Planned · Campus | 2025-04-28 | Direct and indirect jobs during operation, per the regional government. | elDiario.es |
Companies and organizations
| Name | Role | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAMCA (Sociedad Anónima Minera Catalano-Aragonesa) | Developer | Promotes the plan with its subsidiaries Data Center Ribera Alta del Ebro S.L. and Molinos del Ebro S.A. | Gobierno de Aragón; elDiario.es; El Español |
| SAMCA (Sociedad Anónima Minera Catalano-Aragonesa) | Power supplier | Its nearby wind farms, to be renewed and expanded, are to supply renewable power through direct underground lines under a self-consumption arrangement. | Gobierno de Aragón (plan documentation filed by the promoter); elDiario.es |
| Red Eléctrica | Utility | Granted grid access permits for the phased capacity. | elDiario.es |
| Government of Aragon | Government | Declared the project of general interest and gave the regional plan initial approval. | Gobierno de Aragón; elDiario.es |
Timeline
| Date | Event | Actual or planned | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-28 | Announced | Actual | elDiario.es | |
| 2025-04-28 | Other | Actual | Declared an investment of general interest for Aragon; published in the regional gazette on 26 May 2025. | Gobierno de Aragón; elDiario.es |
| 2025-11-21 | Other | Actual | Regional plan filed for processing. | Gobierno de Aragón |
| 2025-12-23 | Other | Actual | Initial approval of the Plan de Interés General de Aragón, after a redrawing of its boundary on 10 December 2025; public information followed. | Gobierno de Aragón; El Español |
| 2027 | Construction started | Planned | In March 2026 construction was planned during 2026; in October 2026 urbanisation was expected by late 2026 or during 2027. | El Español; El Español |
| 2028 | First operational | Planned | First phase targeted for 2028; the announcement put start-up and operation between 2026 and 2030. | El Español; elDiario.es |
Power supply
| Type | Description | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Grid | Connections to the transmission grid through 220 kV underground lines from the Jalón PRE, Bayo and Camporroyo substations to a new Ribera Alta del Ebro substation. | Gobierno de Aragón; Gobierno de Aragón (plan documentation filed by the promoter) |
| Wind | SAMCA's wind farms in Luceni, Pedrola, Plasencia de Jalón and Rueda de Jalón are to be renewed and expanded to supply the campus through direct underground lines under self-consumption with surplus export. | Gobierno de Aragón (plan documentation filed by the promoter); elDiario.es |
The regional plan page shows a last-updated date of 7 July 2026, used as its published date; the water annex is dated November 2025 on its cover. Per-building figures are recorded separately and not summed. The water annex estimates total campus water use below 460,000 cubic metres a year, mostly for optional evaporative support to air-cooled chillers. No final approval of the regional plan had been reported by early October 2026.
Sources for these details
- Plan de Interés General de Aragón Green It Aragón — Gobierno de Aragón; 2026-07-07
- Memoria técnica sobre el consumo de agua del Plan Green IT Aragón (Vol. IV, anexo 18) — Gobierno de Aragón (plan documentation filed by the promoter); 2025-11
- Otros tres centros de datos en Aragón: Samca anuncia una inversión de 2.627 millones en Luceni — elDiario.es; 2025-04-28 · Archived source
- Cerca de 6.000 millones invertidos en centros de datos en Aragón esperan en la rampa de salida para las obras — El Español; 2026-10-05
- Aragón se convierte en la capital de los datos y la nube: el calendario de Amazon, Microsoft y todos los proyectos — El Español; 2026-03-22 · Archived source
- Luceni — Wikipedia; publication date not stated · Archived source
- Companies
- Developer: SAMCA (Sociedad Anónima Minera Catalano-Aragonesa) (unknown scope) evidence
- Developer: SAMCA (Sociedad Anónima Minera Catalano-Aragonesa) (unknown scope) evidence
- Developer: SAMCA (Sociedad Anónima Minera Catalano-Aragonesa) (unknown scope) evidence
- Power Supplier: SAMCA (Sociedad Anónima Minera Catalano-Aragonesa) (unknown scope) evidence
- Power Supplier: SAMCA (Sociedad Anónima Minera Catalano-Aragonesa) (unknown scope) evidence
- Utility: Red Eléctrica (unknown scope) evidence
- Government: Government of Aragon (unknown scope) evidence
- Government: Government of Aragon (unknown scope) evidence
Source and location review
- Status source
- Cerca de 6.000 millones invertidos en centros de datos en Aragón esperan en la rampa de salida para las obras evidence row
El Español · published 2026-10-05 · News - Locator
- Locality reference only · Compiled location reference · locality evidence
- Source checks
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No imagery review is recorded for this project. Its status rests only on the dated authoritative source. · no independent imagery verificationStatus age at review: 22 days before the data update on 2026-10-27
Location details
- Coordinates
- 41.83300, -1.23300
- Geometry licence
- source-terms-not-recorded
- Use scope
- Locality reference only
- Scope class
- locality
- Authority
- Compiled location reference
- Source entity
- Project
- Method
- imported_reference_point
- Derivation
- imported_reference_point
- Precision scope
- Luceni municipal centroid from its Wikipedia article. The technical annex places all three data centers in Luceni municipality; associated grid and wind works extend into Rueda de Jalón, Plasencia de Jalón and Pedrola. No cited source gives site coordinates.
- Horizontal uncertainty
Not reported
The source record provides no measured horizontal uncertainty; original coordinate precision and note are preserved.
- Geometry evidence
- 117a516b
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aragón se convierte en la capital de los datos y la nube: el calendario de Amazon, Microsoft y todos los proyectos Archived copy | El Español News | Imported: Record, Milestone: Construction Started, Milestone: First Operational, Milestone: Other | source-terms-not-recorded | El Español | ea5eeb1219c5ec68dd1c08003caefedf199c34c2ef1017ee517155da78dcac7fFactual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| Cerca de 6.000 millones invertidos en centros de datos en Aragón esperan en la rampa de salida para las obras Archived copy | El Español News | Imported: Record, Imported: Status, Metric: Investment, Milestone: Construction Started, Role: Developer | source-terms-not-recorded | El Español | 903c8060bc0afa46cc677e225b35d77a62f66b41b766ba7c9fe1ef0f3b59db47Factual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| Luceni Archived copy | Wikipedia Other | Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record | not stated | source-terms-not-recorded | Wikipedia | 1067da386d0b604d333e6a184f170fda6f4e643f5a27bf51410b8e357ad15016Factual source record; not the publisher page | |
| Memoria técnica sobre el consumo de agua del Plan Green IT Aragón (Vol. IV, anexo 18) Archived copy | Gobierno de Aragón (plan documentation filed by the promoter) Regulatory filing | Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record, Metric: Buildings, Metric: Power Capacity, Power Source: Grid, Power Source: Wind, Role: Power Supplier | source-terms-not-recorded | Gobierno de Aragón (plan documentation filed by the promoter) | a2ee26a623dac689d985838a69a175e611b9752fa901a6927482ea314060c53bFactual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| Otros tres centros de datos en Aragón: Samca anuncia una inversión de 2.627 millones en Luceni Archived copy | elDiario.es News | Imported: Record, Metric: Buildings, Metric: Investment, Metric: Jobs Construction, Metric: Jobs Permanent, Metric: Power Capacity, Milestone: Announced, Milestone: First Operational, Milestone: Other, Power Source: Wind, Role: Developer, Role: Government, Role: Power Supplier, Role: Utility | source-terms-not-recorded | elDiario.es | 915e4ecc996fa9128960fcbe9f5b4d9336d3e1d72ca86cf05c1893faa4785a23Factual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| Plan de Interés General de Aragón Green It Aragón Archived copy | Gobierno de Aragón Government record | Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record, Imported: Status, Metric: Buildings, Milestone: Other, Power Source: Grid, Role: Developer, Role: Government | source-terms-not-recorded | Gobierno de Aragón | e10a12fc396671e2961207e08fd3326b7441caee16e0cdd4286cea7f503437d8Factual source record; not the publisher page |
Cite this site
Kyars, K. (2026). Green IT Aragón data center campus (SAMCA), Luceni [site vcc-site-0d25d33c7b8c51f70ba3]. In Data Center Atlas (2026-10-27) [Data set]. https://kiankyars.github.io/datacenter-atlas/sites/vcc-site-0d25d33c7b8c51f70ba3/
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