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NxN Data Centers compra un centro de datos en Portugal

Además de hacerse con el centro de Évora, la compañía española tiene la intención de invertir hasta 100 millones de euros en el país vecino para seguir creciendo.

Además de hacerse con el centro de Évora, la compañía española tiene la intención de invertir hasta 100 millones de euros en el país vecino para seguir creciendo.

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  • Tema: Cloud y Arquitectura — Nube pública, híbrida, costos y decisiones de infraestructura.
  • Fuente: Silicon España
  • Publicado: 24/09/2026

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Why it matters

The cloud stopped being a technical decision a long time ago. Today it is a financial decision with technical consequences: capital investment gets swapped for monthly spend, and that swap suits some companies very well and others very badly.

What I look at in these announcements is portability. The more comfortable a platform is, the harder it usually is to leave, and that comfort gets paid for in negotiating power three years later, exactly when renewal comes up and there is no credible alternative left.

What usually goes wrong

The mistake that repeats is not sizing egress traffic. The numbers get done on compute and storage, which are the visible ones, and the surprise arrives with data transfer. It is the line on the bill I have most often seen dismantle a well-built business case.

What to watch

  • Three-year total cost with real growth, not the first-year promotion.
  • How hard it would be to leave or move a piece to another provider, which is future negotiating power.
  • Who sees the bill and in what detail: with no owner for the spend, the spend grows on its own.

How I read this entry

If this fed into an infrastructure decision, I would ask for the three-year total cost with real growth built in, not year one with the entry discount. Most cloud surprises live in year two, when the discount ends and the volume has already gone up.

The original story is published in another language; the excerpt is quoted as the publisher delivers it and the commentary is written in English.
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