The Yorkshire Compute Belt
AI and cloud leave a physical footprint: power, land, and water. This map puts data centres across Yorkshire, the Humber, and Teesside, and those figures, where communities can see them.
How to read the circles
Colour = planning status
- Proposed
- In planning
- Approved
- Building
- Operating
Outline = size disclosed
- Solid fill: megawatts published
- Dashed: megawatts not disclosed (sized by site area, or location only if area unknown)
Grey demos above are style only, not a status colour.
Size = stated megawatts when known
5 MW
100 MW
1 GW
Regional footprint
11 sites · 1,384 MW in planning documents, plus 395 MW stated only by operators · 865 acres of land take · 5 with power not disclosed . Megawatts are stated sizes on paper for proposed or approved schemes, not running load; no operating site here publishes a figure.
| Site | Status | Stated size | Site area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Skelton Grange | proposed | Not disclosed | 48 acres · brownfield |
| Microsoft Eggborough | proposed | Not disclosed | Unknown · brownfield |
| Drax data centre | proposed | 100 MW · first stage only | Unknown · industrial |
| Elsham Tech Park | in planning | 1,000 MW · biggest size stated for this site | 435 acres · farmland |
| Humber Tech Park | approved | 384 MW · IT equipment only | 188 acres · farmland |
| Deep Green Bradford | proposed | 5.6 MW · biggest size stated for this site | 1 acres · industrial |
| Mountpark Ferrybridge (data-centre plot) | proposed | Not disclosed | 40 acres · brownfield |
| Wilton International data centre (Phase 1) | proposed | 280 MW · biggest size stated for this site | 38 acres · industrial |
| Teesworks data centre campus | approved | Not disclosed | 115 acres · brownfield |
| Latos Preston Farm (Stockton) | proposed | 9.5 MW · biggest size stated for this site | Unknown · industrial |
| aql Leeds data centres | operating | Not disclosed | Unknown · brownfield |