Spain is now requiring data centres of 1 MW and above to source at least 80% of their electricity from renewables, with data processing kept under European control.
https://lnkd.in/dJWPiuJ5
Rules like this turn a soft ESG preference into a hard procurement requirement, and it changes how a Project Development Services Agreement gets written. An offtaker with a binding renewables mandate needs more than a signed PPA — it needs a developer who can demonstrate, contract clause by contract clause, that the underlying project will actually deliver.
In practice that means development agreements built around milestones a data centre operator’s compliance and finance teams can audit: grid position, environmental permit status, interconnection studies, and a realistic construction timeline, not just an MW figure and a price.
We are structuring more DSAs this way already — treating the compliance requirement as the spec, not an afterthought bolted onto a standard template.
Expect similar sourcing mandates to spread beyond Spain as data centre demand grows across Iberia and the Gulf.