Sites / Pure DC Brent Cross (LON01, Building 1)

Pure DC Brent Cross (LON01, Building 1)

Pure Data Centres · operating · London Borough of Barnet

Building 1 (LON01A, about 20 MW) of Pure DC's 90 MW Brent Cross campus in Barnet, operational since 2024 and fully leased. Building 2 (about 70 MW) is under construction and mapped separately. Features include a large living wall and HVO backup generation. Distinct from Pure DC / SEGRO Premier Park (Park Royal, LON02).

Stated size

20 MW

IT equipment only Operator

Source: Pure DC London Brent Cross page: Building 1 (20MW) is fully operational

Power for the computers alone, as written in planning materials. Still a stated size, not metered use. Stated size is not electricity use.

Site area

Unknown

ex-industrial / brownfield

What was here: Former industrial land, Brent Cross

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.

6,667 kettles running at once
ⓘ Arithmetic and sources

6,667 kettles running at once (at IT equipment only; power size, not annual use)
- Nameplate 20 MW treated as continuous power for a power-to-power comparison only.
- One kettle = 3 kW.
Figure type: IT equipment only · stated
25,956-45,422 homes' annual electricity
ⓘ Arithmetic and sources

25,956-45,422 homes' annual electricity (at 40%-70% load factor)
- Uses IT equipment only = 20 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.
Local geography (load-factor range): about 12-21% of Barking and Dagenham's annual electricity (the lowest-consumption local authority we compare against)
ⓘ Arithmetic and sources

At 40%-70% load factor: about 12-21% of Barking and Dagenham's annual electricity (the lowest-consumption local authority we compare against) (annual electricity)

70-123 gigawatt-hours per year assumed
- Uses IT equipment only = 20 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.

Timeline

2024: Building 1 (LON01A, ~20 MW) operational and fully leased
2026-06: Glencar appointed for final phase (Building 2, ~70 MW) of the 90 MW campus

Sources

No live planning application link recorded yet. We do not upgrade a site past “proposed” without one.

Map point: longitude -0.2343, latitude 51.5721. Last reviewed 2026-10-05.