RWE has completed the sale of its under-development Didcot Data Campus, located at the site of a former coal power plant in Oxfordshire, UK, to an undisclosed hyperscaler.

According to the German power producer, the sale was completed for approximately €225 million ($262m). It will see the company divest from the Didcot A site, where it had planned to develop a data center. Didcot A, a coal-fired power station, was originally opened in 1970 and demolished between 2014 and 2020.

While the exact location of the data center was not confirmed, Didcot is the only data center that RWE has planned in the UK. The Essen-based company said the site has already obtained planning permission, granted in July 2025 by the Vale of White Horse District Council.

As a result of the sale, the company reported higher-than-expected profits, with its nine-month adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortization falling by 13 percent to €3.48 billion ($4.06bn).

“Our portfolio is robust and growing in a value-accretive way. The artificial intelligence boom is driving worldwide demand for electricity and, thus, the demand for renewable energy. These are good prospects for our business,” RWE’s finance chief, Michael Mueller, said.

RWE has signed multiple offtake deals with the data center sector, which is fast becoming one of its biggest clients. Recent examples include a 446MW PPA with Microsoft and a 200MW solar PPA with Meta in Texas.

RWE has a robust portfolio of renewable energy assets across the US, totaling around 10GW of overall capacity. The company is targeting significant expansion across the country, with a renewable pipeline of more than 24GW at various stages of development.