Wind developer Vapat to build 160MW data center campus

Vapat, a Spanish wind group, plans a 160MW data center campus in Torrelobatón, Valladolid, according to Data Center Dynamics. The site sits beside the San Lorenzo wind farms Vapat owns and near the La Mudarra electrical substation, a useful point on the local grid.

At full buildout, the campus would have two buildings, each housing eight 10MW IT rooms, across up to 250 hectares. DC Mudarra is developing the project, which is in environmental impact assessment, an early administrative phase. The estimated investment is €1.6bn to €2bn ($1.8bn to $2.3bn), though Vapat has not officially announced a final figure; phased implementation and final specifications will determine it.

Vapat is not buying cheap land and hoping for power. It is plugging compute into its own wind farms and its own substation connection. That is the vertical integration now taking shape in the AI buildout: the right to draw power is the limiting factor, and a developer who owns both generation and grid access gets to price them twice.

The project must clear environmental impact assessment before construction moves. The cost estimate implies roughly $11 million to $14 million per MW of IT capacity, a figure only final specifications will pin down.