AFR-IX Telecom Barcelona Cable Landing Station

Barcelona Cable Landing Station is a data center operated by AFR-IX Telecom in Sant Adrià de Besòs, Catalonia, ES. The facility is currently operational. It sits in the Barcelona data-center market on the ENTSOE-ES grid, which DC Hub's Data Center Power Index currently rates AVOID, with an estimated 64.6-month time-to-power. Operators should weigh interconnection risk here — the market screens constrained on grid headroom and time-to-power.

Status
Operational
Market
Sant Adrià De Besòs
City
Sant Adrià de Besòs
State
Catalonia
Country
ES

Market intelligence

AVOID

Data Center Power Index verdict for Barcelona — the market this facility sits in.

Full DCPI breakdown →

Market context

DC Hub analyst read on Barcelona — the market this facility sits in (full deep-dive →).

Barcelona's data center market remains nascent and undersized, with only 70 tracked facilities totaling 40 MW across a fragmented operator base. The market is dominated by regional and incumbent players—Telefonica Barcelona, Equinix operating two separate entity entries with 3 and 2 facilities respectively, and Acens Barcelona—with a significant portion of capacity 3 facilities held by unidentified operators, indicating either smaller independent players or incomplete market intelligence. The capital-light nature of the installed base and lack of recent M&A signals suggest minimal institutional attention to Barcelona relative to larger European hubs. The DCPI verdict of AVOID—driven by excess-power constraint at 33/100 and a problematic capacity constraint score of 56/100—disqualifies Barcelona from acquisition consideration for growth-oriented investors. The constraint score of 56/100…

Location

Area Sant Adrià de Besòs, Catalonia, ES

Approximate area (about 1 km)

Market & grid context

Published DC Hub data for this location.

MarketBarcelona
Grid operatorENTSOE-ES
Data Center Power IndexAVOID
Est. time to power64.6 months
LocationSant Adrià de Besòs, ES

Fiber connectivity

Networks recorded as present at or immediately around Barcelona Cable Landing Station in public peering records. Treat this as a map of who is there, not as a list of contracted cross-connects — availability, diversity and pricing are the operator’s to confirm.

AFR-IX TelecomAire Networks del MediterraneoCATNIX Route ServersCSUCESpanixESpanix Route ServersEstabanell Impulsa, SAUOperadors Quilometre Zero

Source: PeeringDB carrier-to-facility records, matched to this site by location. A network listed here may sit in a neighbouring hall or an adjacent building at the same address, so presence is reported for the location rather than for a single suite.

Power generation nearby

DC Hub tracks 43 operating generating units totalling 2,776 MW within about 50 km of Sant Adrià de Besòs, ES. Generation mix shapes both carbon profile and interconnection options for a site at this location.

Oil/Gas2,641 MW · 8 units · 95%
Utility-Scale Solar103 MW · 34 units · 4%
Bioenergy32 MW · 1 unit · 1%

Source: Global Energy Monitor unit inventory, operating units only. Counts are units, not plants.

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Data: DC Hub global infrastructure database · Raw JSON
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