Santander: Solares, Cantabria

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Santander: Solares, Cantabria

Year Built: 2011

PUE: 1.25

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The campus has two twin data center buildings, Norte and Sur, with room for two more, plus an enterprise command center that monitors the group's data centers and global network around the clock. Cooling combines mechanical cooling with free cooling and adiabatic cooling, a design suited to Cantabria's mild climate. The bank built it to a Tier IV design and used it as the template for its later data centers.

Site History

2013: The centre held IT systems for several group companies and disaster recovery for Santander UK, at about 40% of its capacity.
2011-12: Banco Santander opened the centre after 14 months of construction.
2010-08: Construction began.

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Sites within 15 miles of Santander: Solares, Cantabria

Distance	Site	About
5.46 miles	Stoneshield: Altamira I	The project will unfold in three phases, with the first phase breaking ground in January 2026 and launching in 2032, followed by the start of the remaining phases in 2028.
6.24 miles	Orange: Santander	Orange opened a €4 million ($4.7m) data center in Santander, Spain in 2021. Located in the Candina Industrial Park in the northern Cantabria region, the facility spans 1,236 square meters (13,300 sq ft).

Operating Company

Santander Digital Services is the trading name of Santander Global Technology and Operations, S.L.U., a wholly owned subsidiary of Banco Santander. It is the successor to Produban, the group's former IT infrastructure and data center company, which merged into Ingeniería de Software Bancario (Isban) in July 2018. Isban then took the name Santander Global Technology, and in June 2021 it absorbed Santander Global Operations.

The company has its registered office in Boadilla del Monte, near Madrid, and has more than 8,000 staff. It runs Santander's cloud migration, cybersecurity and software engineering, and reports that 90% of the group's infrastructure now runs in the cloud. Its Gravity dual-run tool moves the group's core banking systems to the cloud.

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