"Blackpool Council is preparing to submit a planning permission application for a 6MW environmentally friendly datacentre before the end of the year, as part of its push to create a 40-acre technology campus dubbed Silicon Sands. The council first went public with its plans for Silicon Sands in late May 2024. The project is designed to capitalise on Blackpool's close proximity to the North Atlantic Loop undersea fibre cable network."
"The local council said at the time that it wanted the site - located in the Blackpool Airport Enterprise Zone - to attract businesses to the area that require low-latency connections to high-performance computing resources. It also set its sights on courting datacentre operators interested in building renewably powered server farms on the site that are also capable of contributing their waste heat back to the local community via district heating schemes."
Blackpool Council plans to submit a planning application for a 6MW environmentally friendly datacentre before Christmas 2025 as part of a 40-acre Silicon Sands technology campus. The development aims to exploit proximity to the North Atlantic Loop undersea fibre cable to attract businesses needing low-latency, high-performance computing access. The council seeks datacentre operators willing to use renewable power and to return waste heat to the local community via district heating schemes. The project has secured £2m from the Lancashire devolution deal and achieved strategic site status in the county's growth plan, supported by significant private investor interest.
Read at ComputerWeekly.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]