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Spain drafts rule tying new data centres to renewable power and EU-only control

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.

Verified AI-drafted Ministerio para la Transicion Ecologica (MITECO), press release, 27 August 2026

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

How this item was made. Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above and published under the editor’s responsibility without a person reading it first. How the record is made

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