Edged: BIL02 Bilbao-Arasur Data Center

The BIL02 Bilbao-Arasur Data Center is operated by Edged Energy in strategic partnership with MERLIN Properties. It is part of the Bilbao-Arasur hyperscale campus located in the Arasur industrial and logistics hub, just south of Bilbao in Northern Spain. 

Its location offers significant market advantages: proximity to major European infrastructures, presence at a high-speed fiber crossroads, low-latency connectivity between Northern Europe, Spain, and undersea cable systems linking to other continents, and access to sustainable energy resources. 

BIL02 is part of a campus designed for modern demands—including AI, cloud services, and high-performance computing—while emphasizing sustainability and efficiency. 

⚙️ Facility Highlights

• Critical Power Capacity: BIL02 offers ~48 MW of critical IT power. 
• Campus Power Size: The full Bilbao-Arasur campus totals ~118 MW critical capacity across its buildings.
• Design & Redundancy:
• Tier III design with concurrently maintainable infrastructure. 
• N+1 redundancy for power, UPS, and cooling systems.
• Cooling Technology:
• “Waterless cooling” is used—i.e. zero liters of water used per kWh for cooling. 
• Modular cooling via ThermalWorks systems, which are designed for ultra-high density racks. 
• Support for high rack densities: up to ~70 kW per rack via air cooling, and up to ~200 kW with liquid cooling. 
• Energy Efficiency: Guaranteed PUE of 1.15. 
• Clean Energy & Sustainability:
• 100% renewable energy via solar/wind PPAs, adjacent solar farm. 
• Operationally carbon neutral design commitments.

🔐 Security & Compliance

• Physical Security: 24×7×365 access controls; secure site fencing; multiple layers of access controls. 
• Fire & Smoke Systems: Addressable smoke detectors; hot-aisle early detection; double interlock pre-action fire suppression in data halls. 
• Power and Mechanical System Reliability: Battery backup across all electrical/mechanical systems; standby generation using low emissions (Tier IV Final) engines. 
• Certifications & Standards: Designed to Tier III concurrently maintainable; guaranteed uptime SLAs; compliance to environmental and efficiency standards. Specific third-party certifications aren’t listed for BIL02 (public sources do not yet list e.g. Uptime Institute certification or ISO details). 

🌐 Connectivity & Carrier Access

• Carrier-Neutral Facility: Multiple fiber providers; diverse fiber entry points into the campus. 
• Fiber Crossroads Location: Positioned at a junction of high-speed fiber networks with ultra-low latency links to Northern Europe and trans-oceanic/undersea systems. 
• Interconnection Options: Meet-me rooms in BIL02; connections among campus buildings and external networks. 

💼 Who It Serves

• Large enterprises, hyperscalers, and cloud providers needing high power, high density, and scalable infrastructure. 
• Organizations with workloads in AI, machine learning, HPC, large data analytics that demand both performance and low latency. 
• Customers prioritizing sustainability, environmental impact, renewable energy, and efficient cooling technologies. 
• Telecom / carriers looking for interconnection and fiber network endpoints due to its location at fiber crossroads.