Amazon Data Services, Ridgeway Distribution Centre, Iver
Amazon Web Services
Buckinghamshire Council approved Amazon Data Services UK's plans on 28 September 2026 to replace 17 industrial and warehouse units at the Ridgeway Distribution Centre, Iver, with a single two-storey data centre (about 30,525 sqm, main building about 20m high), a substation compound and a yard for 27 backup generators on a 7.3ha site. No MW figure has been published. The site is outside the green belt but in the Colne Valley Regional Park setting and an air quality management area. The Environment Agency generator permit is still to be decided.
Key facts
- Operator / developer
- Amazon Web Services
- Location
- Ridgeway Distribution Centre (Ridgeway Trading Estate), Iver, SL0 9JQ, South East, United Kingdom
- Status
- Approved
- Facility type
- Data centre
- AI relevance
- Not stated
- Announced
- 28 October 2025
- Floor area
- 30,525 m²
- Permanent jobs
- 60
Power & grid
- Power
- No IT load or grid capacity published. Scheme includes an on-site substation compound with two switchrooms.
- Backup fuel
- Mixed
- On-site generation
- 27 backup generators, primarily HVO with diesel as backup; testing limited to 7:30am–6pm weekdays and 8am–1pm Saturdays. Environment Agency permit application EPR/TP3621MM/A001 (advertised 13 Aug 2026) not yet determined.
- Cooling
- Direct evaporative cooling with outside air for most of the year; adiabatic cooling using rainwater as primary supply in warmer periods (DCD).
Planning
- Council
- Buckinghamshire Council
- Planning route
- Local planning (TCPA)
- Planning reference
- T3PLZVESLZY00
- Planning decision
- Approved subject to conditions and a legal agreement
- Decision date
- 28 September 2026
- Green belt
- No
- Land area
- 7.3 ha
Benefits vs drawbacks
Benefits
£600,382 towards air-quality offset projects and £73,000 for public rights of way improvements, secured by legal agreement; generator emissions monitoring required.
Timeline
Sources
- Huge 7.3-hectare Amazon data centre approved in Buckinghamshire
Secondary source · Bucks Herald · 28 September 2026
- Amazon data centre plans approved
Secondary source · Hello Rayo · September 2026
- AWS files to develop data center outside London, UK
Secondary source · DatacenterDynamics · 28 October 2025
- SL0 9JQ, Amazon Data Services UK Limited: environmental permit application advertisement EPR/TP3621MM/A001
Primary record · Environment Agency (GOV.UK) · 13 August 2026
Last verified
30 September 2026
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