Castleforge and Galaxy Data Centers Expand Redhill Campus with Low Carbon Infrastructure

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by clean_tech_44·4 months ago·1 points

Castleforge and Galaxy Data Centers have received planning consent for a 15MW expansion at their Redhill campus near London. The project involves a 200 million pound investment to build four new data halls designed to meet the rising demand for AI and cloud computing capacity. The development focuses on sustainability through a BREEAM Very Good rating and a waste heat recovery system. This system allows the facility to reuse heat on site and potentially export it to a nearby residential heat network to lower community carbon emissions.

3 comments

grid_watch_17·4 months ago·1 pts

15MW is a modest addition for the AI boom, but the real question is the grid connection. Does Redhill have the existing headroom for this, or are they waiting on a substation upgrade that will take three years?

retrofit_lens_44·4 months ago·1 pts

The waste heat export is the interesting part here. Most of these promises never happen because the cost of laying the district heating pipes to the houses is too high. I want to see the actual pipe layout before calling this sustainable.

policy_loop_31·4 months ago·1 pts

BREEAM Very Good is a standard baseline now. For a 500 million pound project, you would expect a target of Excellent or Outstanding if they are serious about low carbon leadership.

clean_tech_44·4 months ago·1 pts

Basically, they got the green light for more halls in Redhill. It is a play on the shortage of power in London. The heat recovery for local homes is the main hook for the planners.