Google Launches $15bn Data Center Build in India
April 28, 2026
Epping Forest District Council has granted planning permission for Google’s new data center campus at North Weald Airfield, moving the project forward despite local objections.
Google paid a£88.2 million for 52 acres (21 hectares) of land at a former RAF airbase. Epping Forest District Council announced the sale of part of North Weald Airfield in Essex in late January 2024 to create a data centre campus.
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| 3.66 miles | Kao Data: KLON-08 |
This facility will be part of KAO Data's Harlow Campus, located in the London-Stansted-Cambridge technology corridor.
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| 3.66 miles | Kao Data: KLON-07 |
This facility will be part of KAO Data's Harlow Campus, located in the London-Stansted-Cambridge technology corridor.
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| 3.66 miles | ServerChoice: Harlow |
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| 3.67 miles | Kao Data: Harlow KLON-01 |
The KAO datacentre campus is located in the London-Stansted-Cambridge technology corridor.
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| 3.72 miles | Kao Data: KLON-03 |
This facility will be a part of KAO Data's Harlow Campus, located in the London-Stansted-Cambridge technology corridor.
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| 3.73 miles | Kao Data: KLON-02 |
This facility is part of KAO Data's Harlow Campus, located in the London-Stansted-Cambridge technology corridor.
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| 3.79 miles | Kao Data: KLON-04 |
This facility will be a part of KAO Data's Harlow Campus, located in the London-Stansted-Cambridge technology corridor.
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| 5.86 miles | Nscale: Loughton, Essex |
Nscale, a prominent UK AI company, will invest $2.5 billion over the next three years to bolster the UK's data center infrastructure.
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| 7.49 miles | Exa: Hoddesdon |
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| 9.05 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
As part of a £5 billion two-year commitment to the UK, Google has opened a new data centre in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire.
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| 9.14 miles | Green Mountain: London East |
The parent company of Norwegian-based Green Mountain has acquired Infinity SDC Ltd, taking over a data center in Romford, East London.
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| 9.22 miles | Green Mountain: London East Bldg 2 |
Green Mountain is expanding its London data center footprint for its existing facilities in the capital.
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| 9.23 miles | Infinity Romford North and South |
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| 10.29 miles | VIRTUS London1 Enfield |
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| 10.29 miles | Wavenet: Enfield |
Wavenet’s Enfield facility is not a stand-alone data centre – it is “Data Hall 4” inside the Virtus LONDON1 campus.
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| 11.01 miles | Ark: Meridian Park | |
| 11.13 miles | Coreix Enfield | |
| 11.90 miles | NTT London 1 (Dagenham) |
The NTT LON1 facility will be 24,000 sqm and 60MW critical IT load once fully developed.
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| 13.56 miles | Digital Reef: East Havering Campus |
Digital Reef aims to construct a massive $5.97 billion (£5.3 billion) data center campus on a 175-acre Green Belt site in London's Havering borough.
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| 14.25 miles | Infinity SDC HereEast |
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| 14.91 miles | Stratus: Belvedere |
Stratus Data Centres plans to construct two Tier III data centers in Belvedere, South East London.
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| 15.36 miles | Netwise London East (NLE) |
Situated in East London near City Airport, the facility is powered entirely by renewable energy. It boasts a highly efficient cooling system, utilizing evaporative technology to achieve a design Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of 1.05 (design capacity, not annualized).
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| 15.51 miles | Kao Data: Bidder Street, Newham |
The Bidder Street Data Center has received planning approval from local councilors in the Newham area of East London. The facility is expected to begin operations by 2027.
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| 15.62 miles | IP House: London |
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| 15.68 miles | INAP North London |
INAP's North London data center is located within Colt's facility on Black Fan Road
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| 15.68 miles | Colt London North: Welwyn Garden City |
London, Welwyn Garden City is a carrier neutral facility situated just 35 minutes train journey north of London’s Kings Cross station.
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| 15.69 miles | OVH London LON-1 |
The OVH site of the new London facility was previously owned by a telecoms operator and it is near two substations, providing the required high electrical capacity
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| 15.94 miles | Verizon London THW | |
| 15.95 miles | Telehouse London Docklands (North, East, West) |
Telehouse operates five data centers in London, four at its Docklands campus in East London, consisting of Telehouse North (opened 1990), Telehouse East (opened 1999), Telehouse West (opened 2010), and Telehouse North Two (opened in 2016.)
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| 15.98 miles | CapitaLand: Welwyn Garden City |
In July 2024, CapitaLand secured planning permission for a £87 million data centre redevelopment.
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| 15.99 miles | GTT London GS2 |
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| 16.00 miles | Global Switch: London East |
Global Switch London East was the largest purpose-built data center in Europe, offering 450,000 sq ft of net technical space across 11 floors (700,000 sq ft gross).
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| 16.02 miles | Global Switch: London North |
Global Switch London North is a retrofit of the former Financial Times printing works. It first opened as a data center in late 1999, at the height of the "dot-com" boom.
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| 16.03 miles | Lumen London 3 (E India Dock) | |
| 16.05 miles | Global Switch: London South |
Global Switch plans for the construction of a new data center in London Docklands. The new five-floor 290,625sqft data center, known as London South, will expand Global Switch’s London site.
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| 16.09 miles | ADA: LCY02 |
This building is the second facility in Ada Infrastructure's Docklands campus, East London.
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| 16.11 miles | ADA: LCY03 |
This building is the third facility in Ada Infrastructure's Docklands campus, East London.
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| 16.16 miles | ChunkyChips: Essex DC1 |
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| 16.17 miles | ADA: East London Docklands |
The project's first phase includes a 64,245-square-meter (691,530 sq ft) data center building (LCY01) with a substation.
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| 16.23 miles | Equinix: Hertfordshire Campus (DC01UK) |
Equinix has purchased the DC01UK data center campus in Hertfordshire, UK, a site now referred to as the Hertfordshire Campus.
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| 16.24 miles | Telehouse South |
Telehouse is expanding its Telehouse South facility in London, UK.
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| 16.29 miles | Equinix: Hertfordshire Expansion | |
| 16.31 miles | ServerChoice: London |
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| 16.43 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
Google has acquired a plot of land in Essex, UK, previously used as a racetrack and earmarked for residential developments.
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| 16.53 miles | Six Degrees: Anchorage Point |
The data center was originally established by BIS Ltd (which Six Degrees acquired in 2013) and underwent a significant refurbishment to Tier 3 standards.
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| 16.70 miles | nLighten: London Citi |
In April 2024, nLighten acquired the site from Exa Infrastructure.
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| 16.71 miles | European Liquidity Center (EULC) |
ICE Data Services’ state-of-the-art Tier 4 data center in Basildon, Essex, serves as a premier hub for colocation and supporting services.
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| 16.79 miles | Digital Meridian Gate (215 Marsh) |
Located in London Docklands, the Memaco House facility sits in close proximity to the city's many transport links. Memaco House provides 1,630 sq m of well-connected premium customer space over four floors.
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| 16.84 miles | Digital Sovereign House (227 Marsh Wall) |
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| 16.87 miles | Internap London | |
| 16.90 miles | Digital Realty: LON2 | |
| 16.93 miles | Colt House London | |
| 16.95 miles | TeliaSonera HEX/A | |
| 16.97 miles | Six Degrees: London (Interxion LON3) | |
| 16.99 miles | Digital Realty: LON1 LON3 |
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| 17.00 miles | Wavenet: Harbour Exchange | |
| 17.00 miles | Equinix London LD8 Harbour Exchange (Docklands) |
Equinix LD8 was known as Telecity Harbour Exchange (HEX) until July 2016. The facility is the second most connected data centre ecosystem in London.
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| 17.01 miles | Coreix Docklands | |
| 17.02 miles | Epsilon London Telephone House | |
| 17.03 miles | AIMES DC3 Mastmaker Road | |
| 17.08 miles | Stellanor: London City |
Stellanor acquired the site from Redcentric plc as part of a larger deal involving eight UK data centers.
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| 17.11 miles | 1 Olivers Yard - Digital Realty |
This site was formerly a Telecity site that was acquired by Equinix (January 2016) and subsequently sold to Digital Realty Trust (July 2016.)
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| 17.11 miles | Caineal: Wickford |
The Caineal Wickford Data Center is a £1.3 billion high-performance artificial intelligence facility located on a 1.8-hectare site in Wickford, Essex, spearheaded by the London-based developer Caineal LLP.
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| 17.13 miles | Fujitsu: London East (SDC01) |
The Fujitsu London East (SDC01) data center is a Tier III certified facility located in Grays, Essex.
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| 17.13 miles | iomart DC2 London |
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| 17.14 miles | Telehouse London Metro |
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| 17.16 miles | DRT London (Bonnington House) |
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| 17.18 miles | Digital Docklands: Cloud House | |
| 17.25 miles | Lumen: Goswell Rd |
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| 17.25 miles | Stellanor: London North |
The Stellanor London North data center is one of the most historically significant and well-connected digital hubs in London.
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| 17.27 miles | Echelon LCY10 |
Echelon’s existing UK facility, LCY10, is a 12,000 sqm (129,000 sq ft)data center located in London’s Docklands.
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| 17.28 miles | AtlasEdge: London LCY001 |
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| 17.29 miles | Fibroptic: City Reach, Docklands |
Since its opening in 2011, this Tier 2 data centre has provided secure, high-performance colocation at City Reach, Isle of Dogs.
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| 17.29 miles | LeaseWeb: London LON-12 |
Leaseweb's LON-12 data center is a Tier III facility strategically located in the heart of London’s Docklands, offering approximately 3,700 m² (nearly 40,000 sq ft) of secure technical space.
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| 17.29 miles | City Reach London Docklands |
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| 17.29 miles | Keppel GV7 London |
The Keppel London GV7 Data Centre is a newly refurbished data centre located in a secure estate within Canary Wharf, London.
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| 17.29 miles | Centersquare: Docklands LHR2 |
This facility was previously operated by Cyxtera. Centersquare completed the successful acquisition of Cyxtera and Evoque Data Center Solutions in early 2024.
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| 17.31 miles | DDCL: London |
London’s Docklands site provides approximately 23,160 sq. ft. of net technical space divided into two primary data halls with a combined capacity for over 320 cabinets.
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| 17.32 miles | Stellanor: London East |
It was originally a Lumen (formerly Level 3) data center.
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| 17.52 miles | Verne: London DC01 |
The site originally opened in 2013 as Volta Data Centres (specifically Volta GSS) and was rebranded to Verne Global in 2022 following its acquisition by Digital 9 Infrastructure.
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| 17.55 miles | Verne: London EC1 |
The data centre is stacked vertically over seven stories and has a Tier III data centre design.
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| 17.62 miles | Computacenter: Hertfordshire | |
| 17.80 miles | Verizon London UK5 | |
| 18.06 miles | Lumen: 10 Fleet Pl | |
| 18.22 miles | Netwise London Central |
Netwise has officially closed its "London Central" data center facility, which was a key part of their operations in London; the closure happened in June 2024,
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| 18.72 miles | aptum London | |
| 18.86 miles | Custodian Dartford DA2 | |
| 19.13 miles | NTT: London LON2 |
NTT Data has acquired a 26.3-acre plot of land in London, UK, for its eighth data center in the market.
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| 19.13 miles | Carrier-Neutral Data Center Request Dataset | |
| 19.34 miles | Intercity: Elstree |
The Intercity Technology Elstree data center is located on Theobald Street in Borehamwood (Greater London/Hertfordshire border).
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| 19.43 miles | Zenium London One |
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| 19.47 miles | ServerChoice: Stevenage |
Opened in 2008 to great acclaim, Stevenage Data Centre was ServerChoice’s first facility and has been operating continuously with 100% uptime.
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| 19.71 miles | iomart: DC12 North London |
iomart acquired the LDeX Group in December 2018, and what was previously known as the LDeX1 site is now integrated into iomart's network as DC12 North London.
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| 19.83 miles | Nigsun: Stevenage NCS1 |
The Nigsun Datacentre NCS1 is a Tier 3-standard, carrier-neutral facility located in the A1 corridor of Stevenage, designed to host mission-critical IT infrastructure for cloud providers and enterprises.
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| 19.95 miles | Pure DC: Brent Cross |
Pure Data Centres' Brent Cross project has entered its second phase, with the installation of superstructure steelwork now underway for a new building.
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