SEGRO has taken steps forward in its 2.5GW-plus data centre programme, signing a new powered shell pre-let at its Slough Trading Estate and securing planning committee approval for a fully fitted facility in West London.
The Slough deal will see SEGRO develop a 30,000 sq m powered shell data centre for an existing customer at Europe’s largest data centre hub. The building will span three floors of data halls plus a rooftop plant deck, with 50MVA of power available when fully operational.
Planning is already in place through the estate’s Simplified Planning Zone, and SEGRO is targeting a BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rating.
Separately, the company’s joint venture with Pure Data Centres Group at SEGRO Premier Park in Park Royal has cleared the planning committee. The fully fitted facility will draw on 70MVA of incoming power and feature closed-loop liquid cooling to cut water consumption.
The two developments underline SEGRO’s growing push beyond its traditional warehouse and industrial roots into the booming data centre market, where demand for powered space across the UK continues to outstrip supply.
“These two announcements demonstrate further progress in our strategy to execute on the 2.5GW+ opportunity in our powered land bank,” said Andrew Pilsworth, Managing Director of Data Centres and Strategic Partnerships at SEGRO.
“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.”