Sites / Mountpark Ferrybridge (data-centre plot)
Mountpark Ferrybridge (data-centre plot)
Undisclosed (Mountpark / Affinius land) · proposed · Wakefield Council
About 40 acres within the former Ferrybridge C coal-yard redevelopment (Mountpark Ferrybridge), reported sold or reserved for a data centre (Zone A in trade press). The live Wakefield consent linked here is the wider hybrid employment permission for the 110-acre site (decided / approved); a dedicated data-centre size in megawatts and a red-line for Zone A alone are not yet confirmed in materials reviewed. We list the plot as proposed until those are sourced.
Stated size
Not disclosed
No megawatt figure in materials reviewed
Operators often omit a megawatt figure. Map circles then use site area instead. Stated size is not electricity use.
Site area
40 acres
ex-industrial / brownfield Operator
What was here: Former Ferrybridge C power station coal stock yard (brownfield)
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.
- Water: Water use: not disclosed
- Site area: 22.7 football pitches
Claims on record
None recorded yet.
Disclosure checklist
- Stated size (MW): not 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
- 2024-10-04: Wakefield hybrid consent for Mountpark Ferrybridge enabling works and outline employment floorspace (22/02485/HYB) reported decided / approved
- 2025: Trade press: Zone A / about 40 acres taken forward or sold for a data centre within the Ferrybridge masterplan
Sources
- Wakefield planning portal: 22/02485/HYB (Mountpark Ferrybridge hybrid) · archive (Portal serves an incomplete TLS certificate chain (fails strict clients); archived snapshot taken 2026-07-15)
- Place Yorkshire: Mountpark Ferrybridge / Zone A data centre
- BE News: about 40 acres to a data-centre developer
- Mountpark: Ferrybridge consent announcement
Planning application 22/02485/HYB: live portal
Map point: longitude -1.281, latitude 53.715. Last reviewed 2026-07-15.