United Kingdom Data Centre Landscape - 2025

This new 90+ page report covers the UK Data Centre Market and provides the latest information on all of the key issues for Data Centre Providers including:

• The key third party Data Centre Providers and Facilities showing location, size in m2 and power in MW
• New data centre developments to come live
• Data Centre floor space in m2 forecast from 2025 to 2028
• Data Centre Customer Power in MW forecast from 2025 to 2028
• Data Centre geographical city clusters
• Data Centre provider market share
• Data Centre Pricing forecast from 2025 to 2028 (in rack space, m2 & p/ kW rentals)
• The key Data Centre Trends & Data Centre Outlook

About the UK Data Centre market

Datacentrepricing’s 2025 to 2028 report forecasts the data centre space and power is to nearly double. The survey is based on 250 facilities offered by some 100 data centre providers. Current active data centres are spread across seventy-two cities in the UK, with developments to come on board in new locations such Blackpool with a planned 80 MW data centre.

The explosion in interest in generative artificial intelligence will result in growth. The UK government has signalled its intention to attract more data centre investment to the country. To help do this, it has designated data centres as ‘critical national infrastructure’ and pledged to reform planning laws to make it easier to build new facilities on greenbelt land.

The research found a total close to fifty new project announcements from some thirty data centre companies, with many of these being new entrants into the UK market. Power will grow to well over 4 GW by 2030. The Humber Technology Park alone will bring 384 MW of power and the recently approved development by Ada in east London with three sites of 70 MW each, with construction starting in Q1 2025.

Whilst London and the Slough area will remain by far the largest, and seeing also significant growth from many new announced developments, other city clusters will also see growth. Kao Data is to invest GBP £350 million in a new data centre in Manchester which will become operational in 2026. Growth is to come also from new data centre developments in Wales and Scotland with DataVita’s announcement to double its data centre capacity to 40 MW adding of an extended goal of reaching 500 MW in central Scotland over the next five years. The entire five-year project will represent a total investment of approximately GBP £500 million across the central belt of Scotland.