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Meta Talavera de la Reina Data Center Campus (Torrehierro)
Meta Talavera de la Reina Data Center Campus is an AI data center campus developed by Meta in Toledo (Castilla-La Mancha), Talavera de la Reina. 0.25 GW of capacity has been announced; none is energized yet. The gap is what this page tracks: what is claimed versus what is actually built, each figure dated and sourced.
Under construction · Meta · other · Talavera de la Reina, Toledo (Castilla-La Mancha), Spain
Capacity: announced vs energized
Announced-to-energized gap: 0.25 GW. Every figure below is a single dated, sourced claim. Current best per series resolves by evidence tier, then date. See the methodology.
Promised online: 2030. 50 months away. Claimed by Meta / local planning reports (source).
| Source | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Announced | 0.25 GW | 2024-06-01 | reported | journalist report |
Key facts
Reported facts
Structured facts sourced from citations already on this record. Each fact traces to a source in the References section below.
- Project scope
- Zarza Networks (Meta-owned): about 191 ha at Torrehierro Fase 2, Talavera de la Reina
- Building program
- 102 ha parcel; two data center buildings; 72,705 sq m permanent buildings
- Investment (company-claimed)
- About €750M, including €685M for data center construction
- Design (company-claimed)
- Dry-air cooling cuts water need about 80%; LEED; 100% renewable
- Permits (reported, Sep 2026)
- Reparcelation approved Aug 2026; guarantee posted Sep 2 2026, toward building licenses
On the data center map
No mappable coordinate is recorded for Meta Talavera de la Reina Data Center Campus (Torrehierro) yet. Location: Talavera de la Reina.
- Announced capex
- $1.1B
- Jobs
- 250 permanent reported
- Cost per MW
- $5M/MW
- Cost per job
- $4M per permanent job
Every figure is one row in the ledger below with its source. Derived rows are pure arithmetic on the rows above (not new claims). Absent lines mean the fact isn't on record yet.
The deal
- utility
- Red Electrica / Redeia · Developing the 220 kV substation at Calera y Chozas
- developer
- Meta · Developer and operator; Meta's fourth European data center
Power
- Power source
- grid
- Grid operator
- other
- Interconnection
220 kV substation at Calera y Chozas (Red Electrica/Redeia), grid, Under construction. Grid interconnection for the campus
Why here
Meta Talavera de la Reina Data Center Campus is in Toledo (Castilla-La Mancha), Talavera de la Reina. It connects to the other grid, draws on grid power. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.
Financial structure
- Meta investment 2024-2030 (~EUR 1.03bn)
- $1.1B journalist report
Investment, workforce and specs
Timeline
- Aug 2026party addedutility: Red Electrica / Redeia
- Nov 2026Current: Under construction
Sources
- Opening water-guzzling datacenter in empty and dry Spain
- Meta Data Center in Talavera de la Reina will be a 1,000 million dollars investment
- Meta Drives Europe's Digital Future from Talavera: What Its Torrehierro Data Center Will Look Like
- PSI Resumen ejecutivo - Meta Data Center Campus (Zarza Networks)
- Nuevo paso para materializar el centro de datos de Meta en Talavera (750M euros)
- Meta ya puede solicitar las licencias de obra para su campus de datos en Talavera
6e1e64cb-aa2a-424b-8dfe-59d1535ae1e9 · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Every term is defined in the glossary. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.
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DEPLOY. (2026). Meta Talavera de la Reina Data Center Campus (Torrehierro): AI data center campus record. Retrieved November 12, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/meta-talavera-de-la-reina
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