The Government of the Balearic Islands has launched a new data center in Palma, Mallorca, to strengthen digital services provided by the regional government and the health service.

The new facility is integrated with the Sant Pere data processing center, which is already operational, to create a distributed and redundant architecture. According to the Government, each data center can handle 100 percent of the technological operations in the event that the other goes offline.

The goal is to reduce reliance on a single facility to host the government’s critical systems and applications.

The new data center has been designed to a Tier III-equivalent standard with a stated availability of more than 99.982 percent. The infrastructure incorporates redundancy in the electrical, cooling, and communications systems.

The facility features a closed-loop cooling system, according to information provided by the regional government.

The new data center is part of a strategy aimed at keeping the infrastructure that supports the government’s digital services under public control. Beyond computational capacity, the project introduces a second physical location to improve disaster recovery.

The architecture also allows maintenance tasks to be performed at one facility while the other continues to provide services, reducing the risk associated with relying on a single location.

The Balearic Islands’ case illustrates a second dimension of digital sovereignty: not only having processing infrastructure within the territory, but also ensuring sufficient physical redundancy to guarantee that public services can remain operational in the event of an incident.

The combination of redundant public infrastructure and a growing private supply of data centers is shaping a more distributed digital ecosystem in the Balearic Islands, with resilience and control over data as central elements.

A second layer of digital infrastructure in the Balearic Islands

The launch of the public data center comes just a few months after Infotelecom inaugurated a private data center in Son Castelló, Palma. That facility, unveiled in June, is geared toward cloud services, hosting, and processing, and is part of a network that the company complements with its data centers in Ciutadella and Maó.

These are two distinct developments. While Infotelecom is expanding the private capacity of local digital infrastructure in the archipelago, the regional government is now strengthening the resilience of its own systems through a distributed data center architecture.

This distinction is particularly relevant for an island territory, where the availability of communications and digital platforms is especially important for maintaining critical public services.

This piece was translated from DCD's Spanish site and edited by a member of DCD staff.