PROJECT RECORD 84 · UKN006
Rufus Data Centre
Scotland · Pre-application or consultation
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
540 MW (official interpretation)
Retained source claims (may be historical or conflicting)
- 540 MWReported planning or campus figure; source stage may remain unresolvedmaximum_electrical_draw_interpretationScottish Parliament SPICe explains540MW as maximum power drawn; not a signed import agreement or technical scheduleexactofficial_interpretationClaim source · 2026-06-26 ↗
Grid/supply
Not disclosed
Reported MW · basis unknown
No selected summary claim
Retained source claims (may be historical or conflicting)
- 540 MWReported planning or campus figure; source stage may remain unresolvedsecondary_report_unspecifiedunspecifiedsource-stage unresolvedClaim source · 2026-03 ↗
- 540 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
- Facility boundary: maximum_electrical_draw_interpretation; official_interpretation.
Location & development stage
- Stage interpretation
- Pre-application or consultation
- Place / location reference
- Hurlford
- Position precision
- Approximate locality
- Map position
- 55.6009, -4.4536 (latitude, longitude)
Source project UKN006: Purroch, Hurlford, East Ayrshire. Source states Purroch, Hurlford, East Ayrshire; use Hurlford locality only. 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
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Cite this record
ElecTrace (2026-10-14). Rufus Data Centre. UK Data Centre Planning Database, version 1.0.0, project record UKN006. Evidence cutoff 2026-09-22. https://electrace.uk/compute/uk-data-centres/projects/UKN006
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