The Sembcorp Wilton International Data Centre is a planned high-performance computing campus located on a 38-acre brownfield site at the Wilton International industrial park in Teesside, North East England.
Developed jointly by Sembcorp Energy UK and property firm Digital Reef, the 100% air-cooled facility is specifically engineered to support high-density AI and machine learning workloads distributed across three proposed buildings. Strategically situated near the Greystones Substation, the campus will leverage the industrial park’s extensive private wire electricity grid, utilizing local gas, biomass, and waste-to-energy assets, with the infrastructure runway to scale up significantly over the next decade.
The land parcel was previously held by Peak Rare Earths, an Australian mining firm that was bought out by the Chinese rare earths manufacturer Shenghe Resources in September 2025.
Sembcorp Industries (Sembcorp) is a leading Singapore-headquartered provider of energy and urban solutions, dedicated to driving the global energy transition.
The company manages a balanced energy portfolio of 28.3GW globally, which includes 20.2GW of gross renewable energy capacity across 11 countries. In addition to its energy portfolio, Sembcorp oversees large-scale urban development projects spanning 14,800 hectares across Asia. These developments have attracted nearly US$58 billion in investment capital and generated over 414,000 employment opportunities.
Sembcorp is listed on the main board of the Singapore Exchange (SGX). Reflecting its market position and commitment to sustainability, it is a constituent stock of major benchmarks, including the Straits Times Index, FTSE Russell Index, and MSCI Singapore Index, as well as several sustainability indices such as the FTSE4Good Index and MSCI ESG indices.
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