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Digital Realty Crawley
Digital Realty
Crawley, South EastOperational Verified
Operational campus at Manor Royal. Verified through the Environment Agency permit for standby generation; the underlying planning consent was not retrieved.
Key facts
- Operator / developer
- Digital Realty
- Location
- Manor Royal, Crawley, RH10 9BD, South East, United Kingdom
- Status
- Operational
- Facility type
- Data centre
- AI relevance
- Not stated
Power & grid
- Backup fuel
- Diesel
- On-site generation
- 17 standby generators on gas oil, about 72.6 MWth in total; testing under 50 hours per generator per year; 500-hour installation emergency cap (EA decision document, June 2025).
Planning
- Council
- Crawley Borough Council
- Planning reference
- EPR/EP3022ST/A001 (environmental permit)
- Planning decision
- Environmental permit issued
- Decision date
- 9 June 2025
Benefits vs drawbacks
Drawbacks
- 17 gas oil standby generators, about 72.6 MWthSource
Timeline
Environment Agency issued an environmental permit (EPR/EP3022ST/A001).
Source
Sources
- RH10 9BD, Digital Realty (UK) Limited: environmental permit issued
Primary record · Environment Agency · 2025-06-09 · accessed 2026-08-12
- RH10 9BD, Digital Realty (UK) Limited: environmental permit issued
Secondary source · Environment Agency · 2025-06-09
- CoreWeave launches first two UK data center locations
Secondary source · DatacenterDynamics (secondary)
- Decision document, Digital Realty (UK) Limited (EPR/EP3022ST/A001)
Secondary source · Environment Agency · 2025-06-02
Last verified
12 August 2026
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