Today’s episode is dedicated to Start Campus, a structuring project for this new era of developed
economies, where sustainability and the digital transition are the matrix on which to base the future
and which PLMJ is honored to be accompanying. And it’s the future country we’re talking about when
we talk about Start Campus. The €3500 million project touches on everything: clean energy, digitization,
data. Born in Sines, from Afonso Salema’s vision: to reconvert the refinery into one of
the largest data centers in Europe, with a capacity of up to 495 MW. Portugal will enter the radar of giants
such as Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, among others. What does Portugal have to offer? And what is the
value proposition of Start Campus? That’s what we talked about with Afonso Salema, leader of Start Campus, and
with Pedro Lomba, coordinating partner of PLMJ’s TMT area.

Start Campus Connecting the World
Business Focus Magazine The rapid pace of digital transformation is driving an everincreasing amount of data creation, storage and use. This has resulted in increased demand for data centre capacity, a trend that is set to continue, driven specifically by ‘hyperscalers’, i.e. companies that dominate the public cloud and hybrid cloud services industries, such as […]
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