"DC01UK has confirmed that colocation giant Equinix has acquired the 85-acre plot of green belt land in Hertfordshire it secured planning permission for transforming into a hyperscale datacentre campus back in January 2025. The acquisition, according to DC01UK, represents one of the largest infrastructure and real estate transactions in the world, with Equinix confirming it intends to invest a total of £3.9bn in building out the site."
"As such, Equinix has committed to creating two million square feet of datacentre space on the site, which is expected to house at least 250MW of compute capacity on completion. The site, now renamed by Equinix as the Hertfordshire Campus, is expected to directly generate 2,500 jobs during the construction phase of the project, and more than 200 permanent roles once the buildout phase is finished."
"DC01UK, meanwhile, is a company formed in July 2022 through a joint venture between renewable energy consultancy Chiltern Green Energy and building developer Griggs Home. The organisation originally applied for planning permission for the Hertfordshire site in September 2024, and several days later the project was name-checked in a government press release about its plans to reclassify datacentres as Critical National Infrastructure (CNI)."
Equinix purchased an 85-acre green-belt site in Hertfordshire and will invest £3.9bn to develop a hyperscale datacentre campus. The campus will provide two million square feet of datacentre space and is expected to deliver at least 250MW of compute capacity on completion. The build is projected to generate around 2,500 construction jobs and more than 200 permanent roles. Equinix currently operates 14 datacentres in the UK and employs over 1,200 people. DC01UK is a July 2022 joint venture between Chiltern Green Energy and Griggs Home and has further projects codenamed DC02 and DC03 planned.
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