Land for data centres
Flat, compact land of 10 ha or more, at least 150 m across, out of flood zones 2 and 3 now and with climate change, out of coal mining risk and near the strategic road network. Spare demand capacity at the nearest substation is on every site.
3,798 sites fit this search today
Imagery: Mapbox and Maxar. Boundaries: HM Land Registry INSPIRE, Crown copyright.
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What the search looks for
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Open the search- 10 ha or more
- Compact
- At least 150 m across
- Slope under 5°
- Out of flood zones 2 and 3 now and with climate change and out of coal mining risk
- Within 2 km of a motorway or beside a trunk A road
- Outside national parks
- No housing estate or village on it
On every site
- Roads and traffic
- Distance to a motorway and to an A road, and the daily traffic count on the road where the Department for Transport counts it.
- Shape and ground
- Width at the widest point, how compact the plot is, its slope and the share in each flood zone.
- The town it serves
- The population of the built-up area, and spare demand capacity at the nearest primary substation.
Why these rules
Operators want flat, flood-free, stable ground near the strategic road network (JLL; a 2026 campus request to government). National policy counts data centres as essential infrastructure for flood risk (NPPF, August 2026, Annex F) and, outside settlements, weighs grid capacity towards an unmet need (E2(2)(b)(ii)); green belt land is kept in and ranked lower.
Housing estates and villages are left out (at most 10 addresses a hectare and 50 in all): 95% of housing sites have more than 11 a hectare and half of industrial sites under 5.
National parks and the Broads are left out: national policy refuses major development there other than in exceptional circumstances and limits the scale of the rest (NPPF, August 2026, N4); set National park to Any under Constraints to include them. Woodland is left out.
A busy trunk A road counts as a motorway: land within 250 m of an A road carrying 30,000 or more vehicles a day, 2,000 of them lorries (DfT road traffic counts). Land with buildings in use ranks lower.
Sites from the search
Six of the sites the search returned on 10 November 2026. Each opens on the map with its record.
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Chacewater13.2 ha
Cornwall
Widest point 272 mAverage slope 1.8°
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Ruddington12.1 ha
Rushcliffe
Widest point 337 mAverage slope 1.7°
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Marshfield14.3 ha
Newport
Widest point 216 mAverage slope 1.8°
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Marston Moreteyne31.1 ha
Central Bedfordshire
Widest point 439 mAverage slope 1.1°
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Woburn Sands10.8 ha
Milton Keynes
Widest point 283 mAverage slope 1.5°
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Penkridge34.6 ha
South Staffordshire
Widest point 455 mAverage slope 1.5°
Imagery: Mapbox and Maxar. Boundaries: HM Land Registry INSPIRE, Crown copyright.
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