SEGRO has secured planning permission for a £1bn data centre in Park Royal, west London.
CGI of SEGRO and Pure DC’s Park Royal £1bn data centre plans.
The 56-megawatt facility is being developed in a joint venture (JV) with Pure Data Centres Group, owned by Oaktree.
The 323,000 sq ft data centre will be SEGRO’s first fully fitted facility since the group pivoted from developing powered shells.
SEGRO previously said it expected to secure a 15-year pre-let for the centre with a global hyperscale cloud services provider.
The company has also announced an agreement to develop a 320,000 sq ft powered shell data centre for an existing customer at Slough Trading Estate. The building will have three floors of data halls and a roof-level plant deck.
Planning permission for the Slough data centre was secured under the site’s status as part of the Slough Trading Estate Simplified Planning Zone, one of only two such zones in the UK where a full planning application is not required for certain types of development.
Andrew Pilsworth, managing director of data centres and strategic partnerships at SEGRO, said: “These two announcements demonstrate further progress in our strategy to execute on the 2.5-gigwatt-plus opportunity in our powered land bank.
“The critical mass of data centres we have built up at Slough over the past 20 years, together with the Simplified Planning Zone status we have secured there, was 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 the evolution of SEGRO’s fully fitted data centre development strategy.”
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