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# Spain drafts rule tying new data centres to renewable power and EU-only control
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2026-08-27-spain-drafts-data-centre-sovereignty-rules/
- Published: 2026-08-27T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-01T10:49:45.000Z
- Description: Spain's government opened public consultation on a draft royal decree requiring new data centres above 1 megawatt to match at least 80% of hourly consumption with newly built renewable power and to keep operation, data and metadata under EU-regulated entities.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Policy and law, Compute and infrastructure, #news, #verified

Verified [Ministerio para la Transicion Ecologica (MITECO), press release, 27 August 2026](https://www.miteco.gob.es/es/prensa/ultimas-noticias/2026/agosto/-el-gobierno-plantea-impulsar-los-centros-de-datos-sostenibles--.html?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** This does not establish that the decree will be adopted; it is open for consultation until 4 September 2026 and could still change.

**How this item counts.** No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0\. Draft decree in public consultation only, one member state; nothing adopted yet. [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/)