GTR will construct a 16MW data facility in Barcelona, Spain.
Aug 02, 2023 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji
A data center will be built in Barcelona, Spain, by Global Technical Realty (GTR). The company, backed by KKR's third global infrastructure fund, has acquired its first data center building site in Spain. The location is Parc de l'Alba in Cerdanyola del Vallès, just outside of Barcelona. According to the corporation, the 15,000-square-meter plot can accommodate up to 16MW of IT load. Development timelines were not disclosed.
KKR announced in May 2020 that it would invest $1 billion to establish a new hyperscale data center player in Europe. The organization is constructing data centers in Slough, United Kingdom, and Petah Tikva, Israel.
Franek Sodzawiczny, the company's founding CEO, previously established two British data center colocation providers: Sentrum, which Digital Realty acquired for approximately $1 billion in 2012, and Zenium, which CyrusOne acquired for $442 million in 2017. GTR recently announced the launch of its 40.5MW GB One campus outside of London is now pre-leased in its entirety. The first phase is scheduled for completion in the spring of 2024, with the final delivery of all three structures planned for early 2025.