EDP Eyes Repurposing Spanish Coal Plant Sites for Data Centers
- Portuguese utility aims to close its remaining coal plants
- EDP develops wind farms, solar projects in Europe and the US
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EDP SA may use the land of its coal plants in Spain that will be decommissioned for data centers as artificial intelligence drives demand for new computing capacity.
The Portuguese utility previously had plans to build hydrogen and battery projects at some of the locations. But with the rise in AI, the firm is now considering to house data centers as the grid connection is so valuable, Chief Financial Officer Rui Teixeira said in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos.