The campus will feature a "flexible" design, with plans for one or more buildings, each between one and two stories high, encompassing a total footprint of approximately 45,000 square meters (484,375 sq ft).
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Apatura plans a significant £3.9 billion ($5.34bn) investment to develop a data center campus and battery energy storage system (BESS) at the former Ravenscraig Steelworks in Motherwell, North Lanarkshire.
The development will feature up to 70,000 sqm (753,473 sq ft) of data center buildings.
This facility is part of Apatura's Wester Hermiston AI Data Centre Campus in Scotland.
Apatura is moving forward with plans to develop the Wester Hermiston AI Data Centre Campus, a high-performance facility in Edinburgh designed to support hyperscale AI and cloud workloads.
A new AI data center campus is planned for Plean, Scotland, by UK renewables developer Apatura. The project is expected to deliver more than £2 billion of investment and create over 2,000 jobs.
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Apatura sets sights on data center developments across Scotland
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Rendering of Apatura data center outside Motherwell
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Apatura plans an integrated data center campus with on-site battery storage
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Location of Apatura's planned data center in plean outside Falkirk, in Stirling.
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Area of Westerhill AI Energy Campus in Glasgow
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