• Digital Realty opened its first Barcelona data center, BCN1, in the Sant Adrià de Besòs innovation area, extending its Iberian Peninsula footprint.
• The site has 14 MW of total planned capacity, targeting AI and cloud workloads.
• BCN1 is positioned as a low-latency interconnection hub linking routes between the Americas, Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.
• The Barcelona build is intended to add network diversity alongside the company’s Marseille campus, with subsea cable connectivity tied into Marseille and cross-border fiber links to Marseille and Frankfurt.
• The project adds to the company’s Iberian platform, which includes four operating facilities in Madrid and a recently announced data center in Lisbon.

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