--- title: Alibaba in early talks with Spain’s Solaria over power... description: Alibaba has held preliminary talks with Spanish solar producer Solaria about powering a data centre at Puertollano, south of Madrid, as Spain drafts rules... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/alibaba-in-early-talks-with-spain-s-solaria-over-power-for-a-data-centre-ailqrdbgv twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Alibaba in early talks with Spain’s Solaria over power for a data centre | daily.dev og:description: Alibaba has held preliminary talks with Spanish solar producer Solaria about powering a data centre at Puertollano, south of Madrid, as Spain drafts rules... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/alibaba-in-early-talks-with-spain-s-solaria-over-power-for-a-data-centre-ailqrdbgv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/aiLqrDBGV.png og:image:alt: Alibaba in early talks with Spain’s Solaria over power for a data centre og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Alibaba in early talks with Spain’s Solaria over power for a data centre **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Alibaba has held preliminary talks with Spanish solar producer Solaria about powering a data centre at Puertollano, south of Madrid, as Spain drafts rules requiring data centre operators to be established in the EU with data kept inside European borders. Sites above 1MW would need 80% renewable power every hour or lose grid connection. Solaria recently raised EUR 300M and holds a 3.4GW secured data centre capacity portfolio. Alibaba already runs centres in Germany and opened one in Paris, with plans for Finland, the Netherlands and Turkey. Whether a Chinese parent's EU subsidiary counts as 'established in the EU' remains unanswered as Madrid pushes for the rules to be finalized by year end. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What rules is Spain drafting for data centre operators regarding EU data storage? Spain is drafting a decree requiring data centre operators to be established in the European Union and keep all data and metadata inside European borders, going further than the EU's own sovereignty tiers which only cover sensitive public sector work. The government wants the rules published by the end of the year, but whether an EU subsidiary of a Chinese parent company counts as 'established in the EU' remains unanswered. _Those weighing EU cloud sovereignty requirements can follow emerging policy details on daily.dev._ ### What renewable energy requirements will apply to large data centres in Spain? Under Spain's draft decree, data centre sites above 1MW would need to source 80% renewable power every hour or risk losing their grid connection, with new demand required to be matched to newly built clean capacity. Solar producer Solaria, which raised EUR 300 million in April and holds a 3.4GW portfolio of secured data centre capacity across five countries, is positioned to meet this requirement. _Infrastructure teams planning renewable-powered data centres can track regulatory shifts like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Spain wants data centres on 80% renewables every hour, or no grid connection](https://daily.dev/posts/spain-wants-data-centres-on-80-renewables-every-hour-or-no-grid-connection-jexjt1cia) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Solaria raises €300m to turn solar farms into AI infrastructure](https://daily.dev/posts/solaria-raises-300m-to-turn-solar-farms-into-ai-infrastructure-qujlcdd4r) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [A $1bn Spanish data centre deal, with no customer and no address](https://daily.dev/posts/a-1bn-spanish-data-centre-deal-with-no-customer-and-no-address-hgfnwvssp) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Apple adds 650 megawatts of renewables in Europe with more coming in China](https://daily.dev/posts/apple-adds-650-megawatts-of-renewables-in-europe-with-more-coming-in-china-tqrlcmkkd) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#regulation](https://daily.dev/tags/regulation), [#alibaba](https://daily.dev/tags/alibaba) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/alibaba-in-early-talks-with-spain-s-solaria-over-power-for-a-data-centre-ailqrdbgv) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Alibaba in early talks with Spain’s Solaria over power for a data centre","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/alibaba-in-early-talks-with-spain-s-solaria-over-power-for-a-data-centre-ailqrdbgv","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/alibaba-in-early-talks-with-spain-s-solaria-over-power-for-a-data-centre-ailqrdbgv"},"datePublished":"2026-10-02T15:21:52.465Z","dateModified":"2026-10-02T15:22:41.008Z","description":"Alibaba has held preliminary talks with Spanish solar producer Solaria about powering a data centre at Puertollano, south of Madrid, as Spain drafts rules...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/7f82901dfe41ea4f9d223d0301b198ba?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/7f82901dfe41ea4f9d223d0301b198ba?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"The Next Web","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The Next Web","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/tnw","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/tnw"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/alibaba-in-early-talks-with-spain-s-solaria-over-power-for-a-data-centre-ailqrdbgv","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"regulation,alibaba","timeRequired":"PT3M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Next Web","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/tnw"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Alibaba in early talks with Spain’s Solaria over power for a data centre"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/alibaba-in-early-talks-with-spain-s-solaria-over-power-for-a-data-centre-ailqrdbgv#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"What rules is Spain drafting for data centre operators regarding EU data storage?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Spain is drafting a decree requiring data centre operators to be established in the European Union and keep all data and metadata inside European borders, going further than the EU's own sovereignty tiers which only cover sensitive public sector work. 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