Data center · Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
SDC M40 Campus
SDC M40 Campus is a planned data center in Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, operated by Slough Holdings UK Limited.
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 | Buckinghamshire (coordinates), England (South East) | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | The site of the project is located in Buckinghamshire, England. It is approximately 2km to the west of Gerrards Cross, approximately 2.5km east of Beaconsfield and approximately 1.5km north of Hedgerley. The site comprises land immediately to the south of the A40 Oxford Road and immediately to the north of the M40 motorway. It has a history of landfill activities and is currently operated by Veolia for the landfilling of inert building waste (albeit the site no longer accepts any forms of waste). | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Planned (pre-application) | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 1 Jan 2027 (reference EN0110030, planning authority The Planning Inspectorate, anticipated, expected January 2027) | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Slough Holdings UK Limited (applicant) | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Gas | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Data centre | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Area | 128 ha (application boundary) | planning.data.gov.uk · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.5873, -0.5946 | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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Nearby
Within 50 km of this data center: 352 power plants (113 operating, 1,409 MW), 201 substations, 151 grid connections (64 operating, 710 MW) and 1 transmission line, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wapseys Wood grid connection | Grid connection | 2 MW | Operating | 0.1 km |
| Wapseys Wood III grid connection | Grid connection | 6.65 MW | Operating | 0.1 km |
| Wapseys Wood III grid connection | Grid connection | 2 MW | Operating | 0.1 km |
| Wapseys Wood | Power plant | 1 MW | Cancelled | 0.2 km |
| Wapsey's Wood III | Power plant | 1 MW | Operating | 0.3 km |
| Wapsey's Wood | Power plant | 7.5 MW | Operating | 0.4 km |
| Gerrards Cross Primary | Substation | — | — | 2.6 km |
| Grassingham Road Primary | Substation | — | — | 3.6 km |
| Denham BSP | Substation | — | — | 4.4 km |
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Data on this page
- DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD). DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects. Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- planning.data.gov.uk. planning.data.gov.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- SSEN Distribution. SSEN Distribution data portal, CC BY 4.0.