A $1bn Spanish data centre deal, with no customer and no address
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A $1B hyperscale campus with an unnamed US cloud buyer and undisclosed site shows how sensitive AI buildout has become around power, land, and politics. If you depend on large-scale compute, start treating location, permitting, and water as part of your vendor diligence, not hidden variables.
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