Through the appointment of Alberto Modrego Eisman and Rhoana Zanotelli both Senior Consultants, BCS brings deep local market knowledge and pan-European delivery experience, strengthening its ability to support clients entering the Iberian market.
Alberto brings a strong cost management background from JLL and has a proven track record supporting large-scale developments across Spain and EMEA. Rhoana adds intensive experience delivering complex infrastructure projects across Europe, including senior roles at Goodman, where she led new data centre developments and drove implementation across the region.
These strategic hires strengthen BCS’ ability to support clients across the full data centre lifecycle, combining local market knowledge with pan-European delivery experience to enable effective, on-the-ground execution.
The Iberian Market
The data centre market has increasingly been shifting its attention toward Southern Europe, challenging the long-standing dominance of the traditional FLAP-D hubs (Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, Paris, and Dublin). As power constraints tighten across these Tier 1 markets, operators are being forced to explore alternative regions, driving significant demand into emerging Tier 2 locations.
As noted in BCS Consultancy’s Q1 Data Centre Commercial Report, the Spanish data centre sector has recently shifted to a competitive grid access model, replacing queues with capacity auctions across 78 constrained nodes, notably in Madrid, Aragon, and Andalusia. This framework prioritises operational readiness, tight delivery timelines, and favours self-builds over speculative lease-based developments.
Southern European markets are now outperforming the traditional FLAP-D hubs in terms of growth rate, driven by structural advantages such as lower-cost land and the ability to deliver large-scale, GPU-dense data centre campuses in regions like Aragón. The Iberian Peninsula benefits from an abundance of renewable energy, particularly solar and wind, enabling long-term, discounted power purchase agreements (PPAs) that support both cost control and sustainability targets.
Barcelona Data Centre Project Win
BCS has recently secured a major data centre development project in Barcelona, marking a significant milestone in its expansion into Spain and reflecting growing demand for its expertise in emerging European markets. The project forms part of a large-scale urban data centre development and represents a substantial investment in the region’s digital infrastructure. It also underscores Spain’s accelerating role as a key destination for next-generation data centre growth in Europe.
BCS is supporting the project across key delivery phases, applying its expertise to bring clarity and confidence to complex, high-value programmes.
“Iberia is rapidly becoming one of the most important growth markets for data centre development in Europe,” said Chris Coward, COO at BCS Consultancy. “As constraints intensify in traditional hubs, our clients are looking to new regions to scale. Expanding our presence in Southern Europe allows us to combine local expertise with our pan-European delivery capability, giving clients the clarity and confidence they need to execute complex projects in these emerging markets.”
