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Microsoft: Eggborough

Year Planned: 2029

Microsoft is proposing to develop a new UK data center campus on the site of a decommissioned power station in Eggborough, North Yorkshire. Microsoft aims to build two two-story data centers on part of the former Eggborough power station.

Microsoft said it is aiming to submit the proposals for planning permission to North Yorkshire Council in Mid-2024 and start construction in early 2027.
Located east of Leeds and west of Hull, Eggborough Power Station was a coal-fired power station launched in 1967. With a generating capacity of 1,960MW, the site's closure was originally announced in September 2015 but delayed until 2018. Demolition works began in 2020.
Eggborough power station was bought by St Francis Group in 2019, with a plan to demolish the power station and build warehouse units in its place. The new EPH gas plant is set to be built on land adjacent to the redevelopment.

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Distance	Site	About
5.59 miles	Drax: Selby Campus	Drax Group is set to transform its historic Selby Power Station in North Yorkshire into a massive digital infrastructure hub, leveraging legacy infrastructure to meet the booming power demands of artificial intelligence.
5.90 miles	Drax: Selby Expansion	Drax Group is set to transform its historic Selby Power Station in North Yorkshire into a massive digital infrastructure hub, leveraging legacy infrastructure to meet the booming power demands of artificial intelligence.
11.11 miles	nLighten Leeds (Wakefield)
11.55 miles	Node4: Leeds
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15.48 miles	CentralInterested in this information?Contact us	Microsoft has acquired 48 acres of land at the Skelton Grange site in Leeds, UK, for £106.6 million ($134.83m) from real estate group Harworth.
15.60 miles	C.C.S. DC14 - Leeds
15.73 miles	Virgin Media Leeds (Temple House)
16.42 miles	Pulsant: Rotherham YH-1
17.11 miles	Simulant: York	Located in the heart of York at Popeshead Court, the Simulant Data Center is a specialized, regional facility operated by Simulant Systems Ltd.
17.46 miles	aql: Leeds DC2	DC2 & DC3 are the company's flagship sites, located within a historic 18th-century chapel. DC3 is famous for its "glass-floored" conference room situated directly above the server racks
17.79 miles	aql: Leeds DC5	DC5 Canon House is aql’s purpose-built High-Performance Computing (HPC) hub, situated approximately half a mile from the Salem Chapel campus.
17.81 miles	aql: Leeds DC3	DC2 & DC3 are the company's flagship sites, located within a historic 18th-century chapel. DC3 is famous for its "glass-floored" conference room situated directly above the server racks
17.99 miles	Lumen: Leeds (Sterling House)
18.51 miles	iomart: DC11 York	The iomart DC11 York data center became part of the iomart network in September 2018 through the acquisition of the York-based hosting provider Bytemark.
18.51 miles	Bytemark YO26
18.89 miles	Gridjet: DC4 & DC5	Gridjet Datacentre Ltd operates a strategically located facility in Leeds, UK, providing a versatile infrastructure across two distinct data halls.
19.08 miles	Deep Green: York DG02	Deep Green is building a data center in York, United Kingdom. The facility, known as DG02, is a modular data center located at the Monks Cross Leisure Park in Huntington.
19.21 miles	AtlasEdge: Leeds, UK	AtlasEdge unveils Leeds first Tier 3 standard data center. After acquiring the largest purpose-built data centre in Leeds in 2022, AtlasEdge has since invested more than £13 million to transform the site.

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Microsoft uses Containers (called ITPACs) to build out its data centers. These Containers are Shipping Containers fitted with all the necessary climate control, networking, server racks and other hardware necessary to be a “mini” data center all in one.

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An Azure region is a set of data centers deployed within a latency-defined perimeter and connected through a dedicated regional low-latency network.

With more global regions than any other cloud provider, Azure gives customers the flexibility to deploy applications where they need to. Azure is generally available in 46 regions around the world, with plans announced for 8 additional regions.

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An Azure geography is a discrete market, typically containing two or more regions, that preserves data residency and compliance boundaries.

Geographies allow customers with specific data-residency and compliance needs to keep their data and applications close. Geographies are fault-tolerant to withstand complete region failure through their connection to our dedicated high-capacity networking infrastructure.

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Availability Zones are physically separate locations within an Azure region. Each Availability Zone is made up of one or more data centers equipped with independent power, cooling, and networking.

Availability Zones allow customers to run mission-critical applications with high availability and low-latency replication.

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