Amazon Web Services operates its Spanish cloud-services region from Aragón. Consolis Tecnyconta, part of the Consolis group, specialises in precast concrete and develops solutions for data centre construction.

AWS brought Paebbl and Tecnyconta together to explore the use of carbon-storing material in one of its data centres.

Reducing the environmental impact of data centres includes addressing the embodied emissions of the materials used to build them. Materials that reduce conventional cement use and permanently store CO₂ offer a way to address those emissions.

The Aragón pilot provided an opportunity to assess carbon-storing concrete beyond the laboratory, in precast components used in a real data centre project.

The next building supercycle underway is an opportunity to test how we source, produce and use construction materials. We believe early projects in critical digital infrastructure can help establish a path for the wider built environment, as these projects are commissioned, specified and built in record time amidst the AI buildout.

When an infrastructure owner chooses to work with a new material, the project can generate practical experience for the producers, engineers and construction teams involved. That experience can inform subsequent decisions about specification, concrete production and delivery.

Our ambition is for that experience to travel beyond digital infrastructure, into housing and public works, and eventually into further applications where performance has been demonstrated.

We are grateful to early adopters such as AWS for helping establish these real-world references. Their value grows when they help the wider industry see a credible route to using carbon-storing materials.

The choices made in today’s projects establish how the next generation is built.