Renaissance Land puts in for phase two of £10bn Cambois hyperscale data campus
Reserved matters plans have been lodged with Northumberland Council for two further data centre buildings, known as DC03 and DC04, forming phase two of the wider 6m sq ft campus.
QTS will act as developer and operator of the site, with Corgan serving as architect and Quod acting as planning consultant.
The application follows outline planning permission granted last year for the major data centre development, comprising up to 10 buildings with a combined gross internal area of up to 6m sq ft.
A reserved matters application for the first two data centres was submitted in June. The latest application focuses on the next pair of buildings within the emerging campus.
The wider £10bn scheme is planned on brownfield land at Cambois on the former Blyth Power Station site, around 1.6km north of Blyth, and is intended to become QTS’ flagship data centre campus in Europe.
Phase two will comprise two three-storey data centre buildings, each containing data halls alongside front-of-house and back-of-house support facilities. These would include office accommodation, network rooms, storage space and loading bays.
The plans also include external plant gantry compounds to accommodate electrical equipment, as well as dedicated rooftop areas for mechanical plant.
Associated infrastructure would include a fire water storage and pumping compound, continued access roads connecting with the wider development, vehicular and pedestrian routes, parking, cycle storage and refuse facilities.
The application site covers almost 60 acres of the wider 250-hectare site covered by the outline consent. The two buildings would be located towards the north west of the overall campus masterplan.
The wider development is located east of the A189, with access provided from Brock Lane. The A189 connects the site with Blyth and Newcastle to the south, and Alnwick, Berwick-upon-Tweed, and Scotland to the north.
The River Blyth Estuary lies to the south of the site, while the Wansbeck Estuary is located to the north.
Renaissance Land’s wider proposals also include the infrastructure required to support the data centre campus, including a substation, emergency power generation facilities and associated operational buildings.
The developer is seeking to capitalise on the site’s brownfield status, existing grid connectivity and access to regional employment catchments as demand for digital infrastructure continues to grow.
