Data center · England, United Kingdom

Digital Realty London LON3 data centre

Digital Realty London LON3 data centre is a data centre in England, United Kingdom, with a 2,479 m² building, operated by Digital Realty Trust. It is in an area of high water stress.

Power and water

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No power plant of 50 MW or more is in operation within 10 km, in the plant registers we hold.

Water stress here is high: withdrawals take 52.2% of the renewable water supply of its sub-basin (WRI Aqueduct 4.0, baseline, score 3.4 of 5).

Distances run between the points of the records. How the grid and plants nearby are found; water stress from WRI Aqueduct 4.0.

Facts

Every value links to its source, and to the source's own record where it has one. Licences and last-checked dates are per row.

Fact	Value	Source
Location	England	OpenStreetMap data centers · record · ODbL 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Address	11 Hanbury Street, London, E1 6QR	OpenStreetMap data centers · record · ODbL 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Digital Realty Trust	OpenStreetMap data centers · record · ODbL 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Website	https://www.digitalrealty.com/data-centers/emea/london/lon3	OpenStreetMap data centers · record · ODbL 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Water stress	High (40–80%) (score 3.4 of 5, withdrawals 52.2% of renewable supply)	WRI Aqueduct 4.0 · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Building footprint	2,479 m² (building)	OpenStreetMap data centers · record · ODbL 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	51.5216, -0.0731	OpenStreetMap data centers · record · ODbL 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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How its operator compares

Digital Realty Trust operates 11 of the 191 data centers in the United Kingdom in our data with a named owner; 1 owner has more. Counts cover the data centers in our data that name an owner, holder or operator; an asset with several owners counts for each.

Operator in United Kingdom	Rank	Data centers	Share
Equinix	1st	13	6.8%
Digital Realty Trust	2nd	11	5.8%
Virtus	3rd	10	5.2%
Pulsant	4th	8	4.2%
NTT, Inc.	5th	6	3.1%

Nearby

Within 50 km of this data center: 374 power plants (134 operating, 5,269 MW), 96 substations, 38 grid connections (23 operating, 264 MW), 1 transmission line and 1 AI supercomputer, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
Tertiary Study grid connection	Grid connection	57 MW	Planned	1.2 km
SELCHP	Power plant	35.5 MW	Operating	4.4 km
Pegasus House, Sackville Street - Roof Mounted Solar Panels	Power plant	2.3 MW	Cancelled	4.5 km
Hedgehog Grove Solar Farm - Solar Panels	Power plant	98 MW	Planned	4.5 km
North London (Electricity Line) Reinforcement	Transmission line	—	Permitted	9.3 km
Ariel Way White City London grid connection	Grid connection	2.2 MW	Operating	10 km
Goldsmiths Primary	Substation	—	—	13 km
Volt Avenue Primary	Substation	—	—	13 km
Willesden GSP	Substation	—	—	13 km

Operator and place

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Data on this page

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. DUKES 5.11: Power stations in the United Kingdom, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Open Government Licence v3.0.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects, Open Government Licence v3.0.
SSEN Distribution. SSEN Distribution data portal, CC BY 4.0.
Kuzma, S., M.F.P. Bierkens, S. Lakshman, T. Luo, L. Saccoccia, E. H. Sutanudjaja, and R. Van Beek. 2023. Aqueduct 4.0: Updated Decision-Relevant Global Water Risk Indicators. Technical Note. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute. doi.org/10.46830/writn.23.00061. WRI Aqueduct 4.0, CC BY 4.0.