Drawing a culinary analogy, Spain has all the ingredients needed to cook the best dish and earn a Michelin star on the European digital map. This is not a mere wish, but a set of structural competitive advantages:
Competitive renewable energy: Great capacity for clean, decarbonized generation, indispensable for the sustainability footprint demanded by the large computing operators.
Benchmark fiber connectivity: A capillarity and quality of broadband and fixed-network deployment well above the European Union average.
Unique geopolitical location: A natural hub and intercontinental bridge between Europe, America and Africa through submarine cables and key landing points.
Engineering and consulting talent: Technology-service professionals and firms widely recognized in global deployment and systems architecture projects.
Despite having the recipe, there is an obvious risk: burning the dish through execution failures. The main obstacle today lies in access and connection to the electricity grid. Dozens of data center projects and computing gigafactories are paralyzed or waiting for permits to connect to substations.
To capitalize on the opportunity of CADA, Spain must unblock investment in electricity transmission and distribution and avoid over-regulating through improvised royal decrees that generate uncertainty before the European rules take shape.
Competitive renewable energy: Great capacity for clean, decarbonized generation, indispensable for the sustainability footprint demanded by the large computing operators.
Benchmark fiber connectivity: A capillarity and quality of broadband and fixed-network deployment well above the European Union average.
Unique geopolitical location: A natural hub and intercontinental bridge between Europe, America and Africa through submarine cables and key landing points.
Engineering and consulting talent: Technology-service professionals and firms widely recognized in global deployment and systems architecture projects.
Despite having the recipe, there is an obvious risk: burning the dish through execution failures. The main obstacle today lies in access and connection to the electricity grid. Dozens of data center projects and computing gigafactories are paralyzed or waiting for permits to connect to substations.
To capitalize on the opportunity of CADA, Spain must unblock investment in electricity transmission and distribution and avoid over-regulating through improvised royal decrees that generate uncertainty before the European rules take shape.
