PROJECT RECORD 69 · UKN005
Cato Data Centre
Scotland · Planning application or reserved matters
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
600 MW (secondary report)
Retained source claims (may be historical or conflicting)
- 600 MWReported planning or campus figure; source stage may remain unresolvedreported_grid_connection_capacityIndustry report attributes600MW maximum grid connection and Gate2position to ILI; primary offer does not independently supply numericMWexactsecondary_connection_reportClaim source · 2026-06-05 ↗
Reported MW · basis unknown
No selected summary claim
Retained source claims (may be historical or conflicting)
- 600 MWReported planning or campus figure; source stage may remain unresolvedcampus_unspecifiedCato Data Centresource-stage unresolvedClaim source · 2026 ↗
- 600 MWReported planning or campus figure; source stage may remain unresolvedea_associated_installed_capacityCustomer/DNO supplied queue-item capacity, possibly stage or technology element; not certified maximum importMW unit from NESO explanatory FOI, not added to original XLSX raw fieldsource-stage unresolvedClaim source ↗
Apparent power · MVA
Not disclosed
Location & development stage
- Stage interpretation
- Planning application or reserved matters
- Place / location reference
- Auchtertool
- Position precision
- Approximate locality
- Map position
- 56.1029, -3.2598 (latitude, longitude)
Source project UKN005: Auchtertool, Fife. Source states Auchtertool, Fife. Locality representative point only; no site coordinate inferred.
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://graemenicholls.com/cato-data-centre
- https://cato.ili-energy.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/C.-Cato-Energy.pdf
- https://cato.ili-energy.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/O.-Cato-Supporting-Document.pdf
- https://datacentrereview.com/2026/06/ili-group-submits-plans-for-5bn-fife-ai-data-centre/
- https://www.neso.energy/document/373996/download
Cite this record
ElecTrace (2026-10-14). Cato Data Centre. UK Data Centre Planning Database, version 1.0.0, project record UKN005. Evidence cutoff 2026-09-22. https://electrace.uk/compute/uk-data-centres/projects/UKN005
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