As a consolation prize, his name would remain on a street that runs through the industrial park. If the initiative succeeds, the big loser would be Julián Camarillo, an investor who promoted the urbanization of the east of Madrid at the beginning of the 20th century. “We are open to evaluating the proposal officially and to working for its possible implementation,” he said. The councilor for innovation in Madrid, Ángel Niño, confirmed to EL PAÍS that City Hall is indeed considering the suggestion. The idea of re-branding the zone mirrors Barcelona’s renaming of the former industrial neighborhood of Poblenou, District which is now considered the most techie neighborhood in Spain. “We have already met with the mayor and he’s fine with the new name,” says Juan Barba, president of the Madbit association. Meanwhile, the US real estate consultancy firm CBRE dubs it a “relevant area of Madrid” that is experiencing “real estate dynamism.” To optimize the area’s appeal, a group of real estate entrepreneurs have proposed it be rechristened Madbit, in a bid to attract an ecosystem of technology companies, as Silicon Valley does. This interest has turned Julián Camarillo into an “area with enormous growth potential,” according to London-based real estate consultants, Knight Frank. Victor Sainzĭue to the evolution of the internet, investment funds have developed a voracious appetite for plowing money into data centers. A construction worker in front of the MAD4 construction site, Interxion’s new data center in the Julián Camarillo industrial estate. If anything were to happen to these machines, Spain would grind to a halt.
For everything to work, it is necessary to keep the center cold and avoid mishaps. Like all data centers, it will be a large refrigerator for computers, which will be placed under seven layers of security with protective measures against catastrophes.
It measures 35,000 square meters spread over four floors and will stand on the abandoned site once occupied by the slot machine manufacturer, Recreativos Franco. Interxion is currently setting up the largest data center in Madrid here. But new technologies, such as 5G, augmented reality and autonomous vehicles, have boosted the need for storage, making data centers a crucial piece of infrastructure for the digital economy. The seemingly nondescript buildings in the vicinity have aroused little interest over the past 20 years. The Spanish villages with the best 5G and fiber connections
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