Yondr London campus (former Uxbridge Road gas works and AkzoNobel paint factory), Slough
Yondr Group
Yondr Group's 100 MW London campus at 1 Petersfield Avenue, Slough, on the former Uxbridge Road gas works and disused AkzoNobel paint factory, beside the Grand Union Canal (Slough Arm). Building 1 (30 MW) went live in July 2024; Building 2 (30 MW) brought its first 10 MW online in April 2025; Building 3 (40 MW, approved July 2024, construction from February 2025) reached its first ready-for-service milestone in May 2026. Separate from Equinix's Wexham Road scheme on another part of the former AkzoNobel land. Yondr is owned by DigitalBridge.
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- Operator / developer
- Yondr Group
- Location
- 1 Petersfield Avenue, Slough, SL2 5EA, South East, United Kingdom
- Status
- Operational
- Facility type
- Data centre
- AI relevance
- Not stated
Power & grid
- Published capacity
- 100 MW — Published campus build-out capacityA whole-campus figure covering all phases. It is not current operational capacity.
- 100 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.
- Share of UK tracked capacity
- 14.4% of published campus build-out capacity
- Power
- Three buildings: Building 1 30 MW (live July 2024), Building 2 30 MW (first 10 MW phase live April 2025), Building 3 40 MW (first ready-for-service milestone May 2026). About 100 MW total at build-out.
Planning
- Council
- Slough Borough Council
- Planning route
- Local planning (TCPA)
- Planning decision
- Building C (third building) granted by Slough Borough Council on 24 July 2024 (as reported by DCD / Slough Observer).
Benefits vs drawbacks
Benefits
- Brings a derelict paint factory site back into use; designed with Slough Borough Council and the Canal & River Trust to improve the canal sideSource
Timeline
Sources
- Yondr granted planning permission for third data center at Slough UK campus
Secondary source · DatacenterDynamics (secondary) · 2024-08
- Yondr breaks ground on third facility at 100MW London campus
Secondary source · DatacenterDynamics (secondary) · 2025-02-12
- Yondr opens new sustainable data centre in Slough campus
Secondary source · DataCentreNews UK (secondary) · 2025-04-17
- Yondr launches latest data center in Slough, UK
Secondary source · DatacenterDynamics (secondary) · 2026-05
Last verified
6 November 2026
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