The AI Growth Zone for the Midlands
A connected cluster of five independent hyperscale data centre campuses for the Midlands, resolving a critical shortage of high-performance compute in the region, securing its digital future.
- £25 BILLION
Investment
in the
Midlands - 5 Sites
Forming a new
availability
zone - 2,904MW
Total IT
capacity - 2,000+
New skilled
jobs created
Why the Midlands?
A Region Ready for AI
While advanced data centre capacity remains overwhelmingly concentrated in London and the South East, the Midlands have the building blocks necessary to become the UK's leading hub for AI and high-performance compute, underpinned by robust power infrastructure, world-class advanced manufacturing, and a globally recognised university and research ecosystem.
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Transforming De-industrialisation into Digitalisation: Leading the Region's Next Chapter
The Midlands was the engine of Britain's industrial revolution. The Supercluster brings a new wave of digitisation to a region with the skills, workforce, and appetite for reinvention.
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World-class Research and Innovation Corridor
Eight universities, including Birmingham, Warwick, and Coventry provide a powerful pipeline of more than 66,000 graduates each year, benefitting from direct research, talent and compute partnerships with the Supercluster.
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Utilising Existing Power Infrastructure
Bringing the data centres to the power. Each site is positioned adjacent to National Grid transmission infrastructure or former power stations, reducing delivery complexity and enabling faster, lower-disruption connections.
The Sites
Five Locations,
one AI Supercluster
Each site is selected for proximity to National Grid substations, strong transport links, and distance from flood zones — all within a 40km radius of Birmingham.
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North Warwickshire
AI Data Centre Campus
528MW Capacity
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Solihull
AI Data Centre Campus
600MW Capacity
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Rugby
AI Data Centre Campus
672MW Capacity
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South Staffordshire
AI Data Centre Campus
600MW Capacity
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South Derbyshire
AI Data Centre Campus
504MW Capacity
Local Benefits
Benefits for communities and industry
The Midlands AI Supercluster is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to secure the Midlands’ digital future. Creating skilled jobs, supporting local businesses, investing in communities, and opening new opportunities for universities and local institutions. Through long-term investment in infrastructure, skills and innovation, it will help ensure the region leads rather than follows the next wave of economic growth.
Skills & Employment
A major engine for jobs, skills and opportunity. Thousands of construction jobs, around 2,000 permanent roles, and on-site innovation and training centres to help close the skills gap, upskill local people, and create clear pathways into high-value careers in AI and digital infrastructure.
University Partnerships & Advanced Compute Access
Direct compute partnerships with regional universities, AI testbeds, secure data labs, and translational fellowships to anchor graduate careers locally.
Economic Growth
Digital infrastructure will be the bedrock of future growth and prosperity – driving skilled employment, supporting local supply chains, generating business rate revenues, and unlocking wider investment in communities, services and public infrastructure.
Local Community Benefits
Delivering tangible local benefits from district heating networks that can provide lower-cost heat, to local infrastructure upgrades, direct investment in community projects, and new or improved public open spaces. The Supercluster is designed to ensure surrounding communities see practical, visible benefits as development comes forward.
Deliverability
A team with a proven
track record
The Midlands AI Supercluster is backed by a consortium of specialists who have delivered similar large scale, demanding infrastructure projects — bringing deep expertise in investment, design, engineering, planning, and grid connectivity.
Mactaggart
Family & Partners
Mactaggart Family & Partners is a long-established, family-office-backed real estate investment and development platform with more than 125 years of UK heritage. Its deep pool of UK focused capital combined with a long-term investment horizon, and a track record of delivering complex development and investment projects underpins the financial deliverability of the Supercluster.
Everwell
Development
A specialist real estate developer focused on complex, large-scale, infrastructure-led development. Everwell’s leadership combines deep experience in major development delivery, strategic land promotion, and National Grid / NESO power infrastructure, bringing together the key disciplines required to originate and execute hyperscale-ready sites. This underpins Everwell’s rigorous power-led site selection and holistic approach to community benefit and sustainability.
B + R
Architects
A leading speciliast hyperscale data centre architect, with experience designing for global hyperscalers and a strong track record of completed projects.
Cundall
A leading global data centre mechanical and electrical engineering practice, with a strong track record of delivery for hyperscale clients and deep expertise in the mission-critical power, cooling and resilience systems that support hyperscale data centre operations.
WSP
The UK's largest planning and environmental consultancy, bringing unmatched capacity to navigate the consenting process for nationally significant infrastructure at speed.
Blake Clough
& Dec
A specialist grid connection team with direct former National Grid experience, providing an authoritative understanding of transmission infrastructure, substation capacity, and connection strategy.
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