SEGRO has secured planning consent for its first fully fitted data centre, which it is developing in a joint venture with Pure Data Centres Group at SEGRO Premier Park at Park Royal, West London.
The facility will benefit from 70 MVA of power and will incorporate an energy efficient design, including closed‑loop liquid cooling to minimise water use.
SEGRO has also signed an agreement to develop a powered shell data centre for an existing customer at Slough Trading Estate. The building, which will benefit from a power provision of 50 MVA, will provide 30,000 sq m (circa 323,000 sq ft) of modern data centre space across three floors of data halls and a roof level plant deck. SEGRO is targeting a BREEAM Excellent rating for the powered shell development.
Andrew Pilsworth, managing director of data centres and strategic artnerships at SEGRO, said: “These two announcements demonstrate further progress in our strategy to execute on the 2.5GW+ opportunity in our powered land bank. The critical mass of data centres we have built up at Slough over the last 20 years, together with the simplified planning zone status we have secured there were integral to enabling us to work with an existing customer to expand its campus, while allowing SEGRO to profitably utilise a relatively small 3.5-acre plot.
“Securing planning committee approval at Premier Park is also an important milestone for both our Pure JV at the site and, more broadly, in the evolution of SEGRO’s fully fitted data centre development strategy.”
