# Amazon’s Spain Investment Plan Reaches $39.8 Billion; Aragón Plan Covers Five Sites

By John Kim

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Published: 2026-10-22T19:35:00.000Z
Updated: 2026-10-22T19:35:00.000Z
Section: Business

> Two Ebro basin units were on water-scarcity alert at the end of August. A Spanish draft decree would set efficiency and renewable-energy requirements for qualifying data centers.

Amazon plans to invest $39.8 billion in Spain’s cloud and data center infrastructure, a five-site Aragón expansion in a basin where two water units faced scarcity alerts in August 2026.

Amazon’s March 2026 announcement brought the planned investment total to $39.8 billion, following an earlier commitment in 2024. Aragón’s development plan covers five sites and phases work over about 10 years, including roads, fiber, electricity, potable and nonpotable water, and wastewater infrastructure.

Through 2035, the investment is projected to support 29,900 full-time-equivalent jobs per year at local businesses, counting direct, indirect and induced employment. Separately, it estimates 6,700 full-time jobs from direct investment across Spain, including supplier work, with 4,200 in Aragón. These are projections, not confirmed permanent positions at the sites.

In 2025, AWS’s Aragón data centers used roughly 68 million liters of water. That amounted to 0.03% of the Ebro basin’s annual industrial water demand of 208 cubic hectometers.

A separate environmental filing proposes raising the estimated annual water-use limit for one Zaragoza site from 36,461 cubic meters to 53,961 cubic meters. That site-level proposal is separate from Aragón’s 68 million liters of regional use and does not establish future water demand for all five sites.

As of Aug. 31, 2026, the Gállego-Cinca and Aragón-Arba units in the Ebro basin were at alert level for water scarcity. Nine Ebro basin units were in prolonged drought; the alerts do not describe conditions across all of Aragón.

Botorrita resident Silvia Baselga said, “It’s going to be like living beside a prison.” David Blázquez, Amazon’s head of public policy for Spain and Portugal, described the company’s policy on site-level water figures as “a company policy not to publish water usage per site.”

Spain’s Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO) has proposed a decree tying grid access for data centers with at least one megawatt of access power to energy and water efficiency and renewable-energy requirements. The proposal also calls for reporting by centers with at least 500 kilowatts of IT power.

The public comment period closed Sept. 10, 2026. The measure remains a draft.