The giant of the Vantage Data Centers, participated by a millionaire intimate friend of Donald Trump, Tom Barrack, plans to disembark in Aragon with three facilities in Villanueva de Gállego (Zaragoza), for which he will go hand in hand with Aragonese companies.

The news has advanced it This Thursday ‘Heraldo de Aragón’ And confirms the advanced two months ago by eldiario.es, although in the end it would be only three ‘data centers’. According to the local newspaper, the joint investment would exceed 3.2 billion euros, while the job creation horizon when the projects are at full performance – previso in twelve years – is estimated at 520 jobs.

On the American side, the investment would be articulated through a corporate vehicle created on January 31 in Luxembourg. In a document sent to the registration of the Great Ducado, this instrumental indicated two months ago that it was going to develop up to four data centers located in Spain, whose investment and location did not require then. In the end, it will be only three.

Meanwhile, the Aragonese part will come hand in hand with the firm Ecoindustrial Developments La Cartuja SL, integrated in turn by Window Generation and by Postidonia investments; the first, linked to Pedro Machín, president of the Aragon Energy Cluster; the second, with Emilio Garcés and Reynaldo Benito.

The impulse of the three data centers of Villanueva de Gállego is advanced, and in fact this Wednesday they sent the application to the regional Executive to declare it a project of general interest of Aragon, which will reduce the procedures in half and may be saved municipal taxes.

As ‘Heraldo’ has advanced and has confirmed this newspaper, the forecast of this business alliance is to start the works in the summer of 2026 for facilities that will be hyperscala (‘Hyperscale’), designed to store, process and manage massive data volumes. They will occupy an area of ​​40 hectares located just before the San Jorge University and in front of the facilities that Alcampo occupies.

Vantage Data Centers is one of the most prominent operators in a sector that lives a moment of effervescence in the heat of the explosion of artificial intelligence. Founded in 2010, with central offices in Denver (Colorado) and some 1,700 employees, Vantage specializes in developing large -scale data centers campus.

It operates in “21 markets”, according to its own website, and its 35 campus of operational or construction centers – among which those of Villanueva de Gállego still do not appear – represent a total capacity of 2.6 gigawatts of energy, as much as the one planned for 2030 throughout Spain by the artificial intelligence strategy of the Government of Pedro Sánchez.

Among the investors who have opted for Vantage in recent years is Silver Lake, one of Silicon Valley’s largest venture capital funds, and the DigitalBridge Fund, formerly known as Colony Capital, founded by the American millionaire of Lebanese origin Thomas Barrack, appointed just two weeks ago by his friend Donald Trump as the United States ambassador to Turkey.

Trump’s personal friend for decades, Barrack is one of the ultra -ups to which the new president of the United States has recruited for administration, although his figure has gone much more unnoticed than that of the omnipresent Elon Musk. The relationship between both magnates goes back to the 80s of the last century. Barrack, who in his youth was part of the Ronald Reagan administration, was an advisor and one of the great donors of the Trump campaign in 2016 and presided over his 2017 inaugural committee.

The businessman was part of the circle of friendships of the sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein and was related to pressures during the first Trump administration to achieve a rapid agreement for the sale of nuclear reactors to Saudi Arabia. In 2021 he was arrested accused of illegally influencing United States foreign policy positions during Trump’s first stage to favor United Arab Emirates. A popular jury acquitted him in November 2022.

Barrack’s fund was Vantage’s main shareholder until last year. In June 2024 he led a new financing round to capture $ 9.2 billion in the data centers operator with Silver Lake. Quoted in New York, DigitalBridge was up to 2022 shareholder from another company with a very similar name, Vantage Towers, owner of Torres de Telecomunicaciones that a year ago announced an alliance with the Spanish Iberdrola to equip multi -perferating mobile coverage to underground parkings and facilitate the load of electric vehicles.