Merlin Properties and Edged Energy recently announced agreements with Barcelona Cable Landing Station (CLS), Exa and Axent for their new state-of-the-art, carbon neutral data center located in Barcelona, Spain. The agreements mark an important milestone as Merlin Properties, the Iberian Peninsula’s leading developer and operator of green real estate assets, and Edged, a sustainable data center infrastructure technology company, recently started operations at the world-class facility.
Centrally located at the Port of Barcelona near downtown, the Merlin Edged data center offers 16 MW of critical load capacity, consumes no water for cooling and is powered by 100% renewable energy. The facility is uniquely designed for both energy and water efficiency with a guaranteed Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of 1.15 and an advanced waterless cooling system built to handle the dense AI-driven loads that are reshaping the IT industry while conserving Spain’s scarce water resources.