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See how Big Tech is transforming Spain's landscape

NPR Business·Oct 22, 2026 · 4:00 AM CT
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NPR reports from Aragon, a dry region of northeast Spain, where excavators are carving out land for the energy- and water-hungry data centers of the AI boom.

Amazon Web Services has promised to spend almost $40 billion on several vast complexes there, one alone as large as 600 American football fields. Microsoft and the asset manager Blackstone have also signed agreements to build.

While other countries are moving to curb data center growth and Spain's national government is weighing new restrictions, Aragon's regional government is welcoming the companies, a shift that will reshape the region and the livelihoods of people who live there.

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