MADRID, 22 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The new data center operator Templus, sponsored by the Teras Capital and Intermediate Capital Group (ICG) funds, will begin its activity with an installed capacity of 15 megawatts (MW) and a total of five data centers acquired in recent months , specifically, in Madrid, Málaga, Seville, Ceuta and Mallorca, sources in the sector informed Europa Press.
In fact, the facilities in Malaga were part of Avatel’s data center business, which last February was sold to Templus through ICG and Teras Capital.
As explained by the company, its objective is to double its installed power by the end of 2024, until reaching 30 MW, and end the year with 10 data centers in Spain and Portugal.
Among the locations that the company is exploring to expand its operations are autonomous communities such as Catalonia, the Valencian Community, Aragon or the Basque Country, as revealed by the company.
In this context, Templus has been conceived as a platform for “regional, sustainable and cutting-edge” data centers in southern Europe to shorten the distance between the point where the data is processed and the end customer.
It also seeks to offer its clients the reduction of latency – which measures the delay in the arrival of information to its destination through the network -, security and guarantee the “highest levels of efficiency and sustainability.”
In terms of proximity, the new firm aims for its data center platform to provide capillarity to its clients to guarantee access to digital ecosystems that accelerate their digital transformation.
Regarding security, Templus argues that direct connections allow more secure data and cost-effective solutions, as they drive efficiency with low latency and high connectivity, while on sustainability and efficiency the company ensures that it uses 100% renewable energy and makes “responsible use of water.”
As the company has explained, its objective is not to position itself only in provincial capitals, but to bring together population centers, companies and end customers.
Along these lines, Templus emerged at the end of 2023 due to the increase in data consumption and the way in which it is used and managed by both people and companies.
Regarding this, he explained that it was created with a management team with “extensive experience” and with an “adequate critical mass to provide a global response to both large national companies and local companies and administrations with maximum solvency.”
The CEO of Templus is Ignacio Velilla, co-founder of the Spanish Association of Data Centers (Spain DC) – an entity that he presided over between July 2021 and October 2023 – and who has held different positions in companies such as Equinix, specialized in infrastructure. digital.
“What we are looking for is to democratize the data. The proximity of the data facilitates the digitalization process. These facilities should not only be available to companies that are located near the large national or European ‘hubs’, any company must have the same digital opportunities regardless of where they operate,” said Velilla.
“That is the great objective of Templus, to bring data closer to people and companies and not for them to get closer to the data. In short, if we can keep the information closer to the users who need it, we will be more efficient, faster and safe,” he added.