Lockerbie in Scotland could get Europe's biggest datacentre.
The firm
Lockerbie Data
Centres is consulting with local residents over the building of
the centre, which will spread over 250,000 square metres.
Costing £800m, the proposed Peelhouses Data Centre and
Sustainable Village will include a new business park providing
around 20,000 square metres of high-tech office space to attract
internet companies to the area.
It is hoped 1,000 jobs will be created, along with 750 new homes
of mixed tenure in a "traditional south of Scotland village
format", and also provide a sustainable living environment.
A percentage of the power required for the datacentre will come
from local wind farms and a bio-mass plant. The cool local climate
will also substantially reduce the power requirement for cooling
the many thousand servers used in the data facility.
John Hume, chairman and chief executive of Lockerbie Data
Centres, said, "Meeting with a number of different groups has given
us the opportunity to listen to concerns which we have now
integrated into our plans. The overall message we have received is
that people are pleased to see this development which will put
Lockerbie firmly on the map as an international hub for the
internet age."
It is expected that the planning application will be lodged with
Dumfries and Galloway Council in early April.