PROJECT RECORD 55 · MID-ASTON
SUB1 Aston Cross data centre
England · Planning permission reported
Reported capacity
Claims use different boundaries and may describe overlapping phases or the whole campus. Values below are not additive, and are not an estimate of remaining construction or incremental grid demand.
IT/compute
Not disclosed
Facility demand / power options
Not disclosed
Grid/supply
Not disclosed
Reported MW · basis unknown
19 MW initial / 38 MW potential; historical, basis unresolved
Retained source claims (may be historical or conflicting)
- 19 MWReported planning or campus figure; source stage may remain unresolvedNGED site capacity; IT/grid boundary not defined in cited paragraphSUB1 Birmingham capacity disclosuresource-stage unresolvedClaim source · 2025-11 ↗
- 19 MWReported planning or campus figure; source stage may remain unresolvedNGED unspecified site capacityhistorical initialsource-stage unresolvedClaim source · 2025-11 ↗
- 38 MWReported planning or campus figure; source stage may remain unresolvedNGED unspecified site capacitypotential ultimatesource-stage unresolvedClaim source · 2025-11 ↗
Apparent power · MVA
Not disclosed
- IT audit decision: unresolved; historical pipeline boundary unknown.
Location & development stage
- Stage interpretation
- Planning permission reported
- Place / location reference
- B6 5RQ
- Position precision
- Postcode centroid
- Map position
- 52.4976, -1.8814 (latitude, longitude)
Public postcode centroid. Not a surveyed site boundary. Multiple postcodes in record; first source location postcode used.
Map points are not surveyed parcel boundaries or electricity connection nodes. The stage is a source-based interpretation at the evidence cutoff, not a current-status check.
Project evidence
These links identify the original publishers. A source may concern a different permit, phase or capacity boundary; use it with the qualifications above.
- https://eplanning.birmingham.gov.uk/Northgate/PlanningExplorer/Generic/StdDetails.aspx?DAURI=PLANNING&FT=Planning+Application+Details&PARAM0=1347654&PT=Planning+Applications+On-Line&PUBLIC=Y&TYPE=PL%2FPlanningPK.xml&XMLSIDE=%2FNorthgate%2FPlanningExplorer%2FSiteFiles%2FSkins%2FBirmingham%2FMenus%2FPL.xml&XSLT=%2FNorthgate%2FPlanningExplorer%2FSiteFiles%2FSkins%2FBirmingham%2Fxslt%2FPL%2FPLDetails.xslt
- https://dso.nationalgrid.co.uk/downloads/15083/data-centre-impact-study2.pdf
Cite this record
ElecTrace (2026-10-14). SUB1 Aston Cross data centre. UK Data Centre Planning Database, version 1.0.0, project record MID-ASTON. Evidence cutoff 2026-09-22. https://electrace.uk/compute/uk-data-centres/projects/MID-ASTON
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