Scotland’s Glasgow City Council has awarded data center and cloud solutions provider DataVita a £44.9 million ($61.47m) contract for compute and storage services.

The agreement will see DataVita help to modernize the council’s digital backbone, and spans five years and nine months.

The council has multiple opportunities to extend the contract, which could run to more than 10 years and a total value of between £80-110 million ($109.5-150.6m).

The contract officially began in October 2025. The services will be provided to the council from the company’s Scottish data centers, and will support more than 400 applications.

“We are incredibly proud to be selected as a strategic partner for Glasgow City Council,” said Danny Quinn, managing director of DataVita. “We are focused on delivering exceptional value and innovation over the initial term and see this as the start of a long-term partnership. Our mission is to provide a resilient, secure, and sustainable digital infrastructure that will not only meet the city’s needs today but also support its ambitions for the future. This award is a testament to our team’s expertise and our commitment to investing in Scotland’s technology ecosystem.”

“The essential services that we deliver to citizens and the value they add to people’s lives are always our first priorities,” said Paul Leinster, chair of the Digital Glasgow Board from Glasgow City Council. “Increasingly, though, we rely on a complex digital estate to deliver those services – and this contract will ensure we have a secure, resilient platform to support what is an incredibly diverse range of work. DataVita brings proven capability here in Scotland, and their commitment to renewable, energy‑efficient operations aligns with Glasgow’s ambitions for a cleaner, greener city.”

More than a decade ago, Glasgow City Council suffered an outage after IT equipment in its data center was damaged by a fire suppression system. This was put down to a failure of an air-conditioning unit at the time. The data center was located in a ground-floor unit of the CityPark business center near the main A8 road.

DataVita currently operates two data centers in Scotland: DV1 outside Glasgow city in Lanarkshire and DV2 in Glasgow.

DV1 offers up to 40MW of power capacity across 4,000 racks, and operates with a PUE of 1.15, while DV2 has the capacity for 130 racks and is located in the basement of 177 Bothwell St, Glasgow. The company filed for DV3 – a planned three-story building in Chapelhall, North Lanarkshire, in November 2025.

In September 2025, neocloud CoreWeave announced that it was deploying an unspecified number of Nvidia GPUs in DataVita data centers.

North Lanarkshire was designated an AI Growth Zone in January 2026 by the UK government, paving the way for 500MW of data center capacity to be built by DataVita. Though the company is touting 500MW for hyperscale use, the AI Growth Zone website lists a target of 250MW of hyperscale space, with a 40MW data center for use by research and innovation bodies, and 100MW for enterprise customers.