The Environment and Energy Minister says new data centres will need renewable electricity, available water, a share of grid connection costs and environmental clearance. Electricity-intensive industry connects without an auction; data centres must compete.
EuroHPC opened the call on 30 July and closes it at 16:00 on 12 November. Portugal's Sines bid has the cables, the deep-water port and the power. The head of the Luso-German Chamber told ECO this weekend that what worries German investors is the bureaucracy.
The Hyperion project near the Alvega roundabout has a unanimously favourable municipal opinion and Project of National Interest status. Quercus calculates that at full capacity it and the EDC ONE site at Pego would draw about 2.8 TWh a year, close to 19 times what Abrantes uses.
Sines' industrial and digital corridor is approaching 10% of Portugal's GDP, with more than €20 billion in announced projects — CALB batteries, Start Campus data centres, Galp's H2Park, Madoqua green ammonia, Repsol Alba, and a slice of the EU AI gigafactory — but mayor Álvaro Beijinha warns rents n
Nscale committed €695 million on Tuesday to expand its Sines Data Campus collaboration with Microsoft and Start Campus — €230 million in shared infrastructure and €465 million for a second 200MW building hosting 66,000+ NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 GPUs from late 2027.
