Spain Advances AI in Healthcare with New European AI Factory and Strategic Health Program
Spain launches a new AI supercomputing factory and a strategic health program, investing over €80 million and €2.8 billion respectively to advance AI-driven healthcare innovation.
- • Spain launches the European One-Health AI Factory with €82 million investment for AI supercomputing in health.
- • The Strategic Health Program 2025-2027 approved, mobilizing over €2.8 billion for personalized and predictive medicine.
- • Initiatives focus on integrating AI with human, animal, and environmental health under the One Health approach.
- • Government emphasizes digital health modernization including telemedicine, advanced analytics, and biotechnological product development.
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Spain is bolstering its leadership in integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into healthcare with two major government-driven initiatives announced in December 2025.
The Spanish government launched the European One-Health AI Factory in Galicia, backed by an 82 million euro budget. This project will include a dedicated AI supercomputer and advanced supercomputing platform funded by the Ministry of Science, Xunta de Galicia, and EuroHPC JU. The factory focuses on a One Health approach, linking human, animal, and environmental health to develop innovations in personalized medicine, healthy aging, marine resource management, agriculture, livestock, and bioenergy. It aims to provide AI services freely to research centers and small to medium enterprises. This initiative places Spain alongside Poland and Germany as the only EU countries with two AI factories approved by the European Commission, highlighting Spain’s strategic role in European digital health innovation.
Simultaneously, the Spanish Council of Ministers approved the Strategic Health Program 2025-2027, part of the Vanguard Health PERTE funded through the NextGenerationEU recovery plan. Since 2021, this program has mobilized over €2.8 billion for health innovation. Minister of Science, Innovation, and Universities Diana Morant emphasized the program’s commitment to equitable personalized, predictive, preventive, and participatory medicine. It also prioritizes biotechnological product development, advanced therapies, digital health services, data analytics, and AI application in health. A new funding agreement was also authorized to support the Sincrotrón ALBA facility with €461.3 million over 15 years.
These initiatives complement Spain’s growing investment in digital health modernization, with over €512 million allocated in 2024 for projects including electronic health records, telemedicine, and cybersecurity. A recently announced state program plans an additional €223 million investment in Intelligent Digital Services, focusing on remote monitoring and telecare.
Together, these strategic moves underscore Spain’s unprecedented government commitment to blend AI and health sciences—boosting research, innovation, and public health with the goal of transformative applications across medical and environmental sectors.
This article was synthesized and translated from native language sources to provide English-speaking readers with local perspectives.
