DataVita DV3, Chapelhall
DataVita
A new data centre building (DV3) at DataVita's existing Chapelhall campus in North Lanarkshire, within the Lanarkshire AI Growth Zone. Financed as part of a £300 million debt facility announced in August 2026 alongside an expansion of the adjacent, already-operating DV1 building. DatacenterDynamics reported in September 2026 that DV3 was under construction, with capacity in both buildings contracted to CoreWeave under a 15-year lease.
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- Operator / developer
- DataVita
- Location
- Chapelhall, ML6 8HW, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Status
- Under construction
- Facility type
- Data centre
- AI relevance
- High — AI/compute led
- Announced
- 18 August 2026
- Financing
- Part of a £300m debt facility announced 18 Aug 2026: £252.5m from ING, ABN AMRO and Santander (80% guaranteed by a £202m National Wealth Fund guarantee), plus further lending from the Scottish National Investment Bank and Siemens Financial Services. The facility covers both the DV1 expansion and DV3 construction jointly -- no DV3-only figure is published.
- Tenant
- Capacity in both DV1's expansion and DV3 is contracted to AI cloud firm CoreWeave under a 15-year lease (DatacenterDynamics)
- Context
- DV1 has operated on the same campus since 2016; DV2 is a separate, smaller DataVita facility in Glasgow, not part of the Lanarkshire AI Growth Zone campus
Power & grid
- Published capacity
- 40 MW — Reported capacity, definition not publishedA megawatt figure was reported but the source does not define what it measures, so it is excluded from every total.
Planning
- Council
- North Lanarkshire Council
- Planning route
- Local planning (TCPA)
- Planning decision
- Approved; under construction as of September 2026
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Benefits
Timeline
DataVita announced a £300m debt facility covering the DV1 expansion and DV3 construction, including a National Wealth Fund guarantee.
Source
Sources
- DataVita secures £300m debt facility to expand North Lanarkshire data center campus
Secondary source · DatacenterDynamics · 18 August 2026
- DataVita files for third data center at campus in North Lanarkshire, Scotland
Secondary source · DatacenterDynamics · 3 September 2026
- DataVita blog: funding secured for data centre expansion
Secondary source · DataVita
- DataVita secures £300 million for data centre rollout
Secondary source · National Wealth Fund (primary) · 2026-08-18
- Scotland's AI Growth Zone gets a £300M power-up
Secondary source · The Register (secondary) · 2026-08-19
Last verified
5 November 2026