A truck plows through the mud at a busy construction site on the coast south of Lisbon. The towers of a decommissioned power plant loom over the area, and in the distance you can see the silhouette of Portugal’s only oil refinery and the cranes of a deep-water port.
During construction, Data center using clean energy It promises to be the largest in Europe and is part of the country’s plans to make its economy more modern. But the Sines project is also at the center of a scandal that has shocked the nation and paved the way for elections at a troubling time for Europe.