AI Cities Zaragoza 2027

AI Cities Zaragoza is a two-day executive summit convened by Data Centre Dynamics (InfraXmedia) focused on aligning European regional governments, utilities, and digital infrastructure developers around AI data center deployment. The inaugural European edition takes place February 3 to 4, 2027, at the Palacio de Congresos de Zaragoza in the Aragon region of Spain, supported by the Government of Aragon. The summit brings together public officials, energy executives, hyperscalers, data center operators, and infrastructure investors to address the regulatory, energy, and real estate demands created by high-density artificial intelligence compute.

Programming Focus

• Economic Development and Infrastructure Investment: Attracting international project finance, structuring public-private frameworks for municipal alignment with cloud operators, and evaluating the local economic return of sovereign AI and hyperscale footprints.
• Regulatory Frameworks and Sovereign Governance: Balancing regional grid capacity between heavy industrial compute demands and domestic consumer loads, navigating cross-border data transfer rules, and drafting municipal zoning and infrastructure incentives.
• Community Engagement and Energy Sustainability: Deploying grid-interactive data centers, incorporating advanced liquid cooling and low-water designs, and ensuring local communities retain tangible economic and educational benefits from digital infrastructure projects.
• Urban AI Applications and Municipal Infrastructure: Scaling urban installations with fiber backbones and high-voltage transmission, deploying real-time predictive models for municipal grid optimization, and integrating public utility modernization.

Featured Speakers

Advisory board members and featured contributors include:

• Manuel Abellan, EMEA Data Center Government Affairs Director, Microsoft
• Angel Pascual Ramos, Director of Strategic Investment, Gobierno de Aragon
• Paula Bueno de Vicente, Public Policy Manager for Infrastructure, Energy, Environment and Sustainability, AWS
• Zahl Limbuwala, Operating Partner, DTCP
• David McCall, Brand Evangelist, QTS Data Centers
• Ignacio Quintana, Head of AI Infrastructure, MGX
• Maria Paz Garcia Alajarin, Managing Director of Energy Management and Thermal Generation, Repsol
• Nacho Velilla, Chief Executive Officer, Templus
• Cyre Mercedes Quinones, Chief Executive Officer, Infrastructure Masons
• Jose De La Uz Pardo, Presidente, Red Espanola de Ciudades Inteligentes (RECI)
• Jose Maria Guilleuma, Managing Director Data Centers, Colliers
• Begona Villacis, Executive Director, SpainDC
• Fernando Garcia, Head of Data Centers Strategic Development Europe, Bureau Veritas Mission Critical
• Fernando Negro, Operating Partner, Asterion Industrial Partners
• Manuel Gimenez Rasero, Chief Executive Officer Data Centers, Iridium (ACS Group)
• Ricardo Abad, Chief Executive Officer, Quark

Sponsors

• Host Partner: Gobierno de Aragon
• Key Industry Partners: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, NVIDIA, Digital Realty, AMD, Schneider Electric, Iberdrola, Acciona, Data4, Goodman, Huawei Data Center Facility, Legrand Data Power & Control, VID Firekill, Hyphen, Banco Sabadell (Sabis)
• Association Partners: SpainDC, Portugal DC, Infrastructure Masons

Who Should Attend

• Regional and national government ministers, municipal leaders, economic development agency heads, and city planners
• Data center developers, colocation operators, and hyperscale engineering teams
• Transmission system operators, power generation companies, and renewable energy providers
• Infrastructure funds, private equity investors, and project finance lenders
• Architectural, engineering, and environmental advisory firms

Logistics

• Venue: Palacio de Congresos de Zaragoza, Plaza Lucas Miret Rodriguez 1, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain
• Dates: February 3 to 4, 2027
• Canonical website: https://www.aicitysummit.com/europe/2027

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