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Microsoft Villamayor de Gállego datacenter campus (Aragón)
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Spain · 1 project · Last reported
Summary
Planned Microsoft datacenter campus on Villamayor de Gállego land at the Malpica industrial estate northeast of Zaragoza, the third Aragón site Microsoft disclosed. The regional government declared it of regional interest in July 2024, citing EUR 2.2 billion of total investment and EUR 365.3 million for an initial phase. The November 2025 regional plan (PIGA Región MSFT) lists 81 hectares and about EUR 1.73 billion, with 50 MW secured for a first phase and up to 300 MW sought later. A modified plan went out for public comment in July 2026, and Forbes reported first operation was expected from 2030.
Source record as of 2026-09-04 · Details and sources
The planning directorate's notice of 28 September 2026, published in the Boletín Oficial de Aragón on 2 October 2026 within the procedure for approving the PIGA "Implantación de la Región Microsoft en Aragón" (Microsoft 7724 Spain, SL), records that the promoter's July 2026 documentation contains the environmental impact studies of the urbanisation projects of the three centres in La Muela, Zaragoza and Villamayor de Gállego, and that the public-information procedure on the studies for those three sites had been opened (by Orden VFL/1111/2026, BOA of 30 July 2026). This dated government record keeps the Villamayor de Gállego campus announced; no definitive approval, licence or works are established. evidence
Gobierno de Aragón, Boletín Oficial de Aragón · published 2026-10-02
Location
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Projects (1)
Microsoft Villamayor de Gállego datacenter campus (Aragón)
Announced last observed as of · Project announcement
This record reports announced as of 2026-09-04. elDiario.es
Location: Villamayor de Gállego, Zaragoza, Aragón, ES. Municipality centroid from Nominatim. Sources place the campus on Villamayor de Gállego land associated with the Polígono Malpica, whose named substation (Malpica) serves it; the parcel itself is not identified. Vozpópuli; Inspenet; elDiario.es
Use: Cloud, Ai unspecified
Capacity, investment and other figures
| Measure | Value | Scope | As of | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Investment | 2,200,000,000 EUR | Announced · Campus | 2024-07-03 | Total cited when the regional interest declaration was made; the Vozpópuli headline rounds it to EUR 2 billion. | Vozpópuli; Inspenet |
| Investment | 365,300,000 EUR | Announced · Phase · Initial construction phase | 2024-07-03 | Vozpópuli; Inspenet | |
| Investment | 1,733,000,000 EUR | Reported · Campus | 2025-11-14 | Per-site figure in the November 2025 PIGA as reported by elDiario.es; lower than the 2024 figure, and the sources do not explain the difference. | elDiario.es |
| Power capacity | 50 MW | Planned · Phase · Unspecified · First phase | 2025-11-14 | elDiario.es; Forbes España | |
| Power capacity | up to 300 MW | Planned · Campus · Unspecified | 2025-11-14 | Second-phase aspiration per campus in the PIGA, as reported by elDiario.es; Forbes gives 250-300 MW per campus over about ten years. | elDiario.es; Forbes España |
| Land area | 81 hectares | Planned · Campus | 2025-11-14 | elDiario.es | |
| Jobs construction | 2,000 count | Planned · Phase · Initial construction phase | 2024-07-03 | Inspenet describes these as jobs during construction; Vozpópuli says the initial phase will employ 2,000 people. | Vozpópuli; Inspenet |
| Jobs permanent | about 300 count | Planned · Campus | 2024-07-03 | Vozpópuli; Inspenet |
Companies and organizations
| Name | Role | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft | Developer | Vozpópuli; Inspenet; elDiario.es; Forbes España | |
| Gobierno de Aragón | Government | Declared the project of regional interest and is processing the PIGA regional plan. | Vozpópuli; elDiario.es; Forbes España |
Timeline
| Date | Event | Actual or planned | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-07-03 | Announced | Actual | Aragón's governing council declared the campus of regional interest. | Vozpópuli; Inspenet |
| 2025-11-14 | Other | Actual | Initial approval of the PIGA Región MSFT plan covering La Muela, Villamayor de Gállego and Zaragoza, opening a public information period. | elDiario.es; Forbes España |
| 2026-07-30 | Other | Actual | A modification of the PIGA was published in the Boletín Oficial de Aragón for public comment. | elDiario.es |
| 2030 | First operational | Planned | Forbes reported the first phase was expected to operate from 2030. | Forbes España |
Power supply
| Type | Description | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Grid | Grid supply through a new substation (named Malpica) starting at 132 kV with a later upgrade to 220 kV. | elDiario.es |
Investment figures conflict between the 2024 declaration (EUR 2.2 billion) and the 2025 PIGA (about EUR 1.73 billion); both are kept with their dates. In 2024 the sources put Microsoft's investment across its three Aragón sites at EUR 6.6 billion. No government primary source was opened; Boletín Oficial de Aragón entries should be added when available.
Related projects: microsoft aragon la muela, microsoft aragon zaragoza puerto venecia
Sources for these details
- Aragón da luz verde a un centro de datos de Microsoft con una inversión de 2.000 millones — Vozpópuli; 2024-07-03
- Microsoft abrirá otro centro de datos en Aragón (el tercero) — Inspenet; 2024-07-04 · Archived source
- Microsoft avanza con su red de centros de datos en Zaragoza, donde proyecta una de sus mayores regiones en Europa — elDiario.es; 2025-11-14
- Microsoft obtiene luz verde para su ambicioso proyecto de centros de datos en Aragón — Forbes España; 2025-11-14
- ZeC presenta 25 alegaciones al plan de Microsoft y exige a la alcaldesa de Zaragoza paralizar un centro de datos — elDiario.es; 2026-09-04
- Companies
- Developer: Microsoft (unknown scope) evidence
- Developer: Microsoft (unknown scope) evidence
- Developer: Microsoft (unknown scope) evidence
- Developer: Microsoft (unknown scope) evidence
- Government: Gobierno de Aragón (unknown scope) evidence
- Government: Gobierno de Aragón (unknown scope) evidence
- Government: Gobierno de Aragón (unknown scope) evidence
Source and location review
- Status source
- BOA no. 192 of 2 October 2026 (csv BOA20261002018): notice of the Dirección General de Planificación Logística y Ordenación del Territorio submitting new strategic environmental documentation of the PIGA "Implantación de la Región Microsoft en Aragón" (Microsoft 7724 Spain, SL) to public information evidence row
Gobierno de Aragón, Boletín Oficial de Aragón · published 2026-10-02 · Government record - 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: 25 days before the data update on 2026-10-27
Location details
- Coordinates
- 41.68570, -0.77400
- 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
- Municipality centroid from Nominatim. Sources place the campus on Villamayor de Gállego land associated with the Polígono Malpica, whose named substation (Malpica) serves it; the parcel itself is not identified.
- Horizontal uncertainty
Not reported
The source record provides no measured horizontal uncertainty; original coordinate precision and note are preserved.
- Geometry evidence
- e35f6456
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 da luz verde a un centro de datos de Microsoft con una inversión de 2.000 millones Archived copy | Vozpópuli News | Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record, Metric: Investment, Metric: Jobs Construction, Metric: Jobs Permanent, Milestone: Announced, Role: Developer, Role: Government | source-terms-not-recorded | Vozpópuli | 11d83534715af1b9fd187188aa55f21a1741609d9a46f716802523faacfadc86Factual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| BOA no. 192 of 2 October 2026 (csv BOA20261002018): notice of the Dirección General de Planificación Logística y Ordenación del Territorio submitting new strategic environmental documentation of the PIGA "Implantación de la Región Microsoft en Aragón" (Microsoft 7724 Spain, SL) to public information Archived copy | Gobierno de Aragón, Boletín Oficial de Aragón Government record | Project announcement | public-sector-information | Boletín Oficial de Aragón, Gobierno de Aragón | 543eae841f285d98b914d15d6876629aa36be57821ddf634706d71dde9afd804Retained source material; see source provenance | ||
| Microsoft abrirá otro centro de datos en Aragón (el tercero) Archived copy | Inspenet Trade publication | Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record, Metric: Investment, Metric: Jobs Construction, Metric: Jobs Permanent, Milestone: Announced, Role: Developer | source-terms-not-recorded | Inspenet | f6d870174f663042c654502145b660201ec7e58925c6fd82867b8eab965a9199Factual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| Microsoft avanza con su red de centros de datos en Zaragoza, donde proyecta una de sus mayores regiones en Europa Archived copy | elDiario.es News | Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record, Metric: Investment, Metric: Land Area, Metric: Power Capacity, Milestone: Other, Power Source: Grid, Role: Developer, Role: Government | source-terms-not-recorded | elDiario.es | 56457d526fcfc7a719fa128725dbe7a57b8399f404281d3914ddc70f685dc990Factual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| Microsoft obtiene luz verde para su ambicioso proyecto de centros de datos en Aragón Archived copy | Forbes España News | Imported: Record, Metric: Power Capacity, Milestone: First Operational, Milestone: Other, Role: Developer, Role: Government | source-terms-not-recorded | Forbes España | 925ed1313fbda1781670d1935ccfe139098e7d3757cc6d39954b86782c4ba9c4Factual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| ZeC presenta 25 alegaciones al plan de Microsoft y exige a la alcaldesa de Zaragoza paralizar un centro de datos Archived copy | elDiario.es News | Imported: Record, Imported: Status, Milestone: Other | source-terms-not-recorded | elDiario.es | 7d0104540f8563169d4fef2e8f4ec29f5103e98bc2a317177a20606650b961b9Factual source record; not the publisher page |
Cite this site
Kyars, K. (2026). Microsoft Villamayor de Gállego datacenter campus (Aragón) [site vcc-site-b74f3c274a5a8c1e01da]. In Data Center Atlas (2026-10-27) [Data set]. https://kiankyars.github.io/datacenter-atlas/sites/vcc-site-b74f3c274a5a8c1e01da/
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