Apatura: East Ayrshire
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: Wishaw, Motherwell
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.
Apatura: Coldstream
The development will feature up to 70,000 sqm (753,473 sq ft) of data center buildings.
Apatura: Wester 2
This facility is part of Apatura's Wester Hermiston AI Data Centre Campus in Scotland.
Apatura: Wester Hermiston AI DC
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.
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This facility is part of Energy OperatorInterested in this information?Contact us's Westerhill AI Energy Campus in Glasgow, Scotland.
Apatura: Larbert AI DC
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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This facility is part of Energy OperatorInterested in this information?Contact us's Westerhill AI Energy Campus in Glasgow, Scotland.
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This facility is part of Energy OperatorInterested in this information?Contact us's Westerhill AI Energy Campus in Glasgow, Scotland.
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The Westerhill AI Energy Campus is an ambitious development combining a state-of-the-art AI data center campus with an integrated, large-scale Battery Energy Storage System (BESS).
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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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Location of Apatura's planned data center in plean outside Falkirk, in Stirling.
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