Sites / Digital Realty LGW16 (Crawley Unit 2)
Digital Realty LGW16 (Crawley Unit 2)
Digital Realty · operating · Crawley Borough Council beyond M25
Digital Realty Crawley Unit 2 (LGW16) on Connect Way, Manor Royal. Colo-X states 12 MW IT load across four halls; some directories cite about 16 MW total power. Part of the Gatwick Diamond / south London metro campus with 72 MVA campus power availability. Mapped as operating from operator or third-party records; no council planning-application URL is linked.
Stated size
16 MW
biggest size stated for this site Operator
Source: Directory (datacenters.com / datacentermap): Digital Realty LGW16 (Crawley Unit 2) about 16 MW available power
The largest megawatt figure on the public record for this one site (planning docs or operator materials). It may include stages that are not built yet. Not everyday electricity use; the source sits with the number. Stated size is not electricity use.
Site area
Unknown
active industrial
What was here: Manor Royal industrial / business park
Water
Not disclosed
No annual water figure in materials reviewed
Equivalences
No operator on this map discloses expected load factor (the share of peak power used on average), so yearly electricity figures are shown as a range, not as a known total.
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5,333 kettles running at once
ⓘ Arithmetic and sources
5,333 kettles running at once (at biggest size stated for this site; power size, not annual use)
- Nameplate 16 MW treated as continuous power for a power-to-power comparison only.
- One kettle = 3 kW.
Figure type: biggest size stated for this site · stated
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20,764-36,338 homes' annual electricity
ⓘ Arithmetic and sources
20,764-36,338 homes' annual electricity (at 40%-70% load factor)
- Uses biggest size stated for this site = 16 MW.
- Assumed average load = nameplate × 40%-70%.
- Home use = 2700 kilowatt-hours/year.
- No operator discloses load factor; this is a bound, not a measurement.
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Local geography (load-factor range): about 10-17% of Barking and Dagenham's annual electricity (the lowest-consumption local authority we compare against)
ⓘ Arithmetic and sources
At 40%-70% load factor: about 10-17% of Barking and Dagenham's annual electricity (the lowest-consumption local authority we compare against) (annual electricity)
56-98 gigawatt-hours per year assumed
- Uses biggest size stated for this site = 16 MW.
- Energy = MW × 8760 h × load factor / 1000 → GWh/year.
- Compared to Department for Energy Security and Net Zero local-authority total metered electricity (all sectors).
- No operator discloses load factor; this is a bound, not a measurement.
- Water: Water use: not disclosed
Claims on record
None recorded yet.
Disclosure checklist
- Stated size (MW): disclosed
- Water: not disclosed
- Power usage effectiveness (PUE): not disclosed
- Energy source claim: none on record
- Load factor: not disclosed
Plain checklist, no aggregate score.
Right of reply
Right of reply: open; no response received. Email marco@prismaticlabs.ai. Subject is prefilled. Or see methodology.
Sources
No live planning application link recorded yet. We do not upgrade a site past “proposed” without one.
Map point: longitude -0.17679, latitude 51.12907. Last reviewed 2026-07-25.