DataVita has filed to expand its Fortis data center campus outside Glasgow in Scotland.

First reported by the Daily Record, Scottish operator DataVita has filed with the local council to develop a new facility in Chapelhall, North Lanarkshire.

The DV3 development, to be built on 1.8 hectares of vacant land on York Road, is set to “likely” comprise a three-story building.

No further details on the scope of the development were included in the application.

The brownfield site, in an industrial area, was previously cleared for development. It is adjacent to DataVita’s existing Fortis facility.

DataVita is part of HFD Group, a Scottish commercial property and investment company.

Located outside Glasgow, the existing Fortis facility (aka DV1) is a Tier-III certified data center currently offering 24MW across 8,000 sqm (86,110 sq ft). The company has said the site is expandable to 40MW.

Built in 2021 by HFD Group, DataVita has operated the data center since 2016 and was the facility’s first occupier. The company took ownership of the facility from a syndicate of private investors in a 2021 deal with ‘£45 million ($63.1 million) of support’ from DataVita’s owner.

Earlier this year, DataVita filed to expand the existing Fortis building with a new external plant building.

The company has a second facility in Glasgow, DV2, in the basement of 177 Bothwell Street. It offers 130 racks across 1,000 sq m (10,765 sq ft).

The company recently announced plans to double its data center footprint to 40MW, with plans to offer up to 500MW in the future.

AI cloud firm CoreWeave is set to deploy GPU infrastructure in Scotland with DataVita.

More data center developments are finally coming to Scotland

Despite having ample renewable power available, Scotland has traditionally had a minimal data center market. Asanti & Atos, Pulsant, IOmart, CenterServ, and Lumen operate small facilities across the country. In December of 2021, Oracle closed the Sun Microsystems data center in Linlithgow.

The Scottish government has previously run campaigns outlining the country as a potential data center destination, identifying multiple potential development sites that can be made available.

However, a number of large-scale developments have now been proposed across the country.

Renewable developer Apatura has proposed several developments totaling gigawatts of capacity, including a 500MW project in North Lanarkshire.

New firm AI Pathfinder, SDCL, Shelborn Drummond, and Argyll Data Development have all outlined plans for projects across the country.

September saw another data center proposal make its way to the local council in North Lanarkshire. Renewable energy firm ILI Group has filed to develop a 400MW data center campus on Carlisle Road in Cleland. The Aurelius campus is one of three the company is proposing across Scotland.