Summary

  • A resolution published on September 7 grants preliminary administrative authorisation for specified electrical infrastructure at Nostrum Evergreen in Badajoz.
  • Two additional transformers are explicitly reserved for future fitting; neither the design nor this permission establishes delivered IT capacity.

Two future transformer positions tell a more useful story about a data-centre project than a single grand capacity figure. They show an intention to preserve room for growth. They do not show that the equipment is installed, connected or supplying a customer.

The distinction is visible in the official Extremadura resolution for Nostrum Evergreen, the Badajoz project promoted by Data Riocaya, SLU. Dated August 26 and published on September 7, it grants preliminary administrative authorisation for specified electrical-consumption infrastructure. The data-centre substation design lists six transformers, with two more expressly marked for future fitting. The first six are also a design specification, not evidence of installation.

This is a meaningful step beyond an application. It defines a power arrangement that can accommodate later additions. For an owner, reserving space may preserve an expansion option without requiring the final configuration to be equipped immediately. The document does not, however, disclose an equipment purchase programme, a spending deferral or the value of that option.

Nor is the resolution a single approval for the entire route to the grid. A public-information notice published in March already separated the national and regional parts of the electrical scheme. The later decision says the rest of the interconnection substation and the lines linking it to the transmission network fall under the national administration. That division identifies responsibility; it does not tell us whether a separate national decision has since been issued.

The equipment numbers need equal care. The transformer ratings are expressed in MVA. Adding them together and presenting the result as live data-centre IT load would answer a different question with the wrong evidence. The resolution describes electrical apparatus and future positions, not a customer-ready quantity of computing capacity.

There is a commercial reason to keep these distinctions visible. In a company-authored February release, published as sponsored material, Nostrum described filing its first-phase municipal works application and seeking authorisations at both national and regional levels. It then aimed for ready-to-build status in September. The newly published regional permission should not automatically be counted as confirmation that every part of that earlier target has been achieved. Nor, midway through September, does it establish a missed target.

The resolution expressly preserves other authorities' permissions and environmental conditions. Its importance is therefore specific: progress on a defined part of the electrical design, including planned expansion space. For a buyer of future data-centre services, the next question is which equipment and operating conditions underpin the particular capacity being offered—not how large the campus might eventually become.