nLighten Madrid-Lezama

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Operational

Fully operational facility

Madrid

Metro
Spain

Country
Western Europe

Region
Europe

Region
EMEA

Region

nLighten Madrid-Lezama

Short Code: MAD1

Ownership: nLighten owns the building.

Total Power

SqFt

Gross Colocation Size

In April 2024, nLighten acquired the site from Exa Infrastructure.

In May 2018, GTT acquired the Madrid site in a $2.3 billion acquisition of Interoute. (TR PR Source)

Power and Cooling:

Total power supply to site: 2000 kVA in 2N
configuration
Total generator power: 2000 kVA in 2N
configuration
Total UPS power: 800 kVA in 2N configuration
Cooling type: Chilled water
Total cooling: 340 kW-2N configuration

Datacenter Details:

Gross size of data centre: 4500 m²
Net size of customer space: 1200 m²
Building type: Brick & concrete
Building tenure: Owned
Number of data suites: 10
Suit expansion available: Yes
Uniform distributed loads: 1000 kg/m²
Max raise floor height: 0 mm

Compliance:

ICREA Certification
ISO 27001
PCI DSS
ISAE 3402 / SSAE 16

Map and Nearby Locations

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nLighten Sites

Nearby Facilities

Sites within 15 miles of nLighten Madrid-Lezama

Distance	Site	About
1.41 miles	AtlasEdge: Madrid MAD001
1.85 miles	Ibercom Madrid
2.26 miles	Produban Mesena 80
2.26 miles	Espanix Datacenter
3.33 miles	Prime: Madrid	Prime Data Centers is developing a 26,000 square-meter data center in Madrid, Spain. The company has secured 7.6 acres in Alcobendas to develop the facility.
3.36 miles	Equinix MD3x
3.36 miles	Equinix MD4x	Equinix MD4x is an operational xScale hyperscale data center at the company’s Alcobendas campus, publicly inaugurated alongside MD5 in May 2026.
3.41 miles	Equinix MD5	Equinix has opened MD5 in Alcobendas, adding a new colocation facility to its Madrid campus and strengthening its interconnection footprint in Southern Europe.
3.43 miles	Equinix MD6
3.47 miles	CyrusOne Madrid I	CyrusOne’s MAD1, finished in 2023, is a located in the municipality of Alcobendas. The data center will ultimately deliver 6,000 sq m (64,584 sq ft) of world-class technical space within a two-story building.
3.74 miles	DATA4 Madrid - Alcobendas	Launched in 2020, the Madrid MAD01 campus is located at Avenida de la Industia 15 in Alcobendas. At full-build out, the eight-hectare campus will host six buildings.
3.77 miles	Data4: MAD01 DC3	Data4 is developing a third data center building at its Alcobendas Campus (MAD01) in Madrid, Spain. When completed, the 15,000 sq m, 3-floor building will host 6 computer rooms.
3.79 miles	AtlasEdge: Calle de Telemaco	Former Colt facility that was acquired by AtlasEdge in 2021
3.81 miles	Data4: MAD01 DC2	The second building of DATA4's Madrid-Alcobendas campus was completed in 2022, offering approximately 3,000 m² of white space.
3.90 miles	Equinix Madrid MD2
3.90 miles	Equinix Madrid MD1
4.40 miles	NxN: Madrid	NxN Data Centers is developing its first Madrid data center at Calle de las Abelias, 1 in Hortaleza, Madrid, through the conversion of the former Banco Popular headquarters building.
4.81 miles	Echelon Iberdrola: Madrid South	The flagship project, the Madrid Sur campus (160,000 sqm), will be powered by a 100% renewable energy solution provided by Iberdrola.
4.82 miles	Digital Realty: MAD4
4.91 miles	Hispaweb Miguel Yuste
5.06 miles	Grupo Aire OASIX: Madrid	The Grupo Aire OASIX Madrid data center spans almost 1,000m² and houses more than 256 racks.
5.06 miles	Nabiax: Julián Camarillo Campus	Nabiax has begun expansion works at its Julián Camarillo Campus. In May 2024, the company announced it would add additional capacity at its Alcalá de Henares campus.
5.10 miles	Digital Realty: MAD2
5.10 miles	Digital Realty: MAD1
5.27 miles	Digital Realty: MAD3
5.74 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset	Microsoft operates a data center in Madrid, Spain, located in San Sebastian de los Reyes.
5.83 miles	Cogent Madrid
6.78 miles	Global Switch Madrid
6.81 miles	Carrier-Neutral Data Center Request Dataset	Global Switch acquired land next to its current Madrid data centre to build a new 24,000 square metre facility.
7.07 miles	IPCore Madrid
8.24 miles	Edgnex: Madrid	Edgnex, a UAE-based data center company, is building a new facility in Spain. The site, located in the Vicalvaro region, was purchased from ActivumSG, a European real estate private equity manager.
8.29 miles	Goodman: Madrid 01	Goodman Madrid 01 (MAD01) is a data center development located in Madrid, Spain, constructed on a converted brownfield site.
8.41 miles	hscale: Madrid MAD1	hscale plans to build its MAD1 data center campus in Madrid.
8.47 miles	inAsset NixMad
8.48 miles	BBVA CPD Tres Cantos
8.76 miles	Quetta: Tres Cantos
9.72 miles	Kyndryl: Madrid
10.27 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset
10.36 miles	Iron Mountain MAD-1	MAD-1 is a 4,000 m² facility situated on a 60,000 m² campus in northeast Madrid. Iron Mountain acquired the campus from XData Properties in November 2022.
10.50 miles	NTT Madrid 1	In 2022, NTT launched its first data center in Spain, opening a new facility outside Madrid, in the municipality of Las Rozas.
11.72 miles	Avaio: Madrid Scorpio	Avaio Digital is developing a data center on a 10-acre site in Madrid, Spain.
12.42 miles	Merlin: Madrid-Getafe	By the end of 2023, Merlin Properties completed the first phase of three data centers in Madrid, Barcelona, and Alava, all built in partnership with US firm Edged Energy
12.42 miles	Edged Energy: Madrid-Getafe	This data center is strategically positioned in Spain's central fiber and logistics hub, just minutes south of Madrid's city center.
12.42 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset	In 2024, Meta leased this data center from Spanish real estate company Merlin Properties, which was developed in collaboration with U.S.-based Edged Energy.
13.17 miles	Data4: Madrid - San Agustin	European data center operator Data4 is building a second Spanish campus outside of the capital city, Madrid.
13.19 miles	Data4: MAD02 DC02	European data center operator Data4 is building a second Spanish campus outside of the capital city, Madrid.
13.22 miles	Data4: MAD02 DC03	European data center operator Data4 is building a second Spanish campus outside of the capital city, Madrid.
13.25 miles	Data4: MAD02 DC04	European data center operator Data4 is building a second Spanish campus outside of the capital city, Madrid.
14.73 miles	Form8tion: Madrid One
14.78 miles	Apto: Madrid	Apto is developing a five-building hyperscale data center campus on the former Casbega/Coca-Cola bottling plant site in Fuenlabrada, Madrid.
15.56 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset	The development of Microsoft's new data center campus in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, has advanced following the initial approval of the special construction plan by the local government board.
15.58 miles	Templus: Alcala, Madrid
18.49 miles	Nabiax: Alcalá de Henares	Nabiax Alcalá Campus comprises two data center buildings ADC1 & ADC2. The facility is also known as CDG Telephone Alcalá de Henares. CDG is Centro Datos Gestionado, which is translated as Managed Data Center.
18.49 miles	Nabiax: ADC 2	Nabiax has begun expansion works at its Alcalá de Henares data center. The Nabiax ADC2 facility has already undergone expansion in multiple phases.
18.50 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset
18.59 miles	Adam MAD Alcala
19.66 miles	Iridium: Carretera Nacional	The ACS Group, through its subsidiary Iridium and in collaboration with Arcano, is actively constructing a new data center on a 6.7-hectare parcel of land in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid.
19.99 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset

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The illustration shows location of MAD1, MAD2, and the new MAD3 facility that will open in Q2 2019

Interxion's Data Centers in Madrid

Source: Silicon Alley Madrid

The illustration shows location of MAD1, MAD2, and the new MAD3 facility that will open in Q2 2019

Operating Company

nLighten is a digital infrastructure platform owned by I Squared Capital, a leading global infrastructure investor. The company is developing innovative edge data centers distributed across European key economic hubs to provide best-in-class network access to regional, national, and global enterprises, private users, and the mobile workforce. Through the strategic distribution of its edge data centers, nLighten is working towards establishing a pan-European presence in all major cities and providing access to low latency and proximity to end users across Europe.
The edge data centers developed by nLighten are designed to meet the increasing demand for faster and more reliable data processing and storage, while also being mindful of environmental impact. nLighten was founded in 2021 by a core team with many years of experience and wide-ranging expertise in the data center sector. The team's main motivation was to create the next step for the data center industry and align edge data centers with the green transition.

nLighten's goal is to build and operate the leading pan-European edge data center platform. The company's focus on strategic locations, low latency, and environmental consciousness positions it as an innovative player in the European digital infrastructure landscape.

Expansion and Acquisitions

nLighten has grown rapidly through both organic growth and strategic acquisitions:

In June 2023, the company acquired Euclyde Data Centers, a French regional platform with six carrier-neutral data centers.
In September 2023, nLighten completed the acquisition of Proximity Data Centers, a leading UK edge platform with ten carrier-neutral data centers.
The company also acquired 10 carrier data center sites from its sister company Exa Infrastructure.

Facilities

67MW

Megawatts

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