Bidder Street data centre, Canning Town
An urban hyperscale data centre on a former scrap metal recycling site on Bidder Street, Canning Town, about 500 metres from the London Internet Exchange. The scheme comprises a data centre with offices, a plant building and an energy centre for heat recovery. Legal & General, Goldacre and sineQN describe it as a £750m investment delivering 80MW of IT power.
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- Operator / developer
- sineQN with Legal & General and Goldacre (applicant IXDS)
- Location
- London (Canning Town), London, United Kingdom
- Status
- Approved
- Facility type
- Data centre
- AI relevance
- Not stated
- Stated investment
- £750,000,000
Power & grid
- Published capacity
- 80 MW — Published IT loadThe IT load the operator or planning documents state the facility will draw.
- Share of UK tracked capacity
- 2.1% of published it load
- Power
- Legal & General's press release (16 Oct 2024) states the development will deliver 80 megawatts of IT power. Recorded as IT load. Earlier reporting of the application gave 77MW.
Planning
- Council
- London Borough of Newham
- Planning route
- Local planning (TCPA)
- Planning decision
- Approved unanimously by Newham's Strategic Development Committee on 15 October 2024
Timeline
Newham's Strategic Development Committee unanimously approved the Bidder Street data centre.
Source
Sources
- Planning consent secured by L&G, Goldacre, and sineQN for £750m hyperscale data centre investment in Newham, London
Secondary source · Legal & General (developer partner; primary statement) · 16 October 2024
- Bidder Street planning approval
Secondary source · TTSP (lead architect) · October 2024
- Newham data centre gets the go-ahead
Secondary source · Newham Citizen · October 2024
- Data centre construction boom gathers pace
Secondary source · Glenigan · 9 March 2026
Last verified
13 October 2026
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