UK renewables developer Apatura is planning another data center campus in Scotland.
As reported by the Courier and the National, Apatura is set to host a public meeting about a proposed project in Plean, outside Falkirk, in Stirling.
The project site is currently agricultural land, located close to Carbrook Mains Farm.
Details of the data center campus weren’t shared, but all of Apatura’s proposed developments to date have been for projects potentially offering hundreds of megawatts of capacity.
The company said the Plean AI data center campus would be a “major new investment in digital infrastructure for Falkirk.”
“The project would support the region’s ambitions for a thriving economy and green transition, enabling a hyperscale green AI data center that creates high-quality jobs and attracts future-focused industries,” Apatura said.
Apatura is set to host a public consultation meeting on September 3 at Glenbervie House on Stirling Road.
Founded in 2014, Apatura describes itself in the application as a leader in energy infrastructure development, with a 10.6GW portfolio of grid-secured energy projects, including 1.8GW of grid connections targeting data center developments.
Full details about the company’s other data center developments aren’t clear, but the BBC recently said the company has five sites in development across the country.
The company recently filed to develop a 200MW data center campus at a former coal site outside Cumnock, in southwest Scotland’s East Ayrshire, alongside a large-scale BESS.
It is also planning a 500MW data center and BESS campus at the former Ravenscraig Steelworks site in Motherwell, North Lanarkshire. Another 300MW data center and BESS development is also in the works in Coldstream, a town on the northwest border with England.
Elsewhere in Scotland, Apatura has BESS projects planned in Kilwinning, North Ayrshire; East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire; Eaglesham and Neilston, East Renfrewshire; Denny, Falkirk; Devonside, Clackmannanshire; and Port Glasgow, Inverclyde.
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