Jurisdiction: United Kingdom
Former Blyth Power Station site, Cambois, Northumberland — £10B, 10 buildings × 72MW = 720MW / 5.8M sq ft on 100ha; outline permission Mar 2025; enabling works underway (late 2025/2026); DC construction Phase 1 from 2027. The UK's coal-brownfield entry in the global pattern.
Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: scheduled
Each factor below contributed to the current score. Contributions are rubric weights from methodology prs-v0.1; every factor cites the record it is derived from.
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| Capital | baseline | 40 | Blackstone QTS Cambois Campus (Blyth) | No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4). |
| Infrastructure | baseline | 70 | Blackstone QTS Cambois Campus (Blyth) | No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Regulatory | baseline | 70 | Blackstone QTS Cambois Campus (Blyth) | No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Regulatory | permit granted | +6 | Utility Approval | Permitting milestone "Utility Approval" achieved on 2025-03-01. |
| Regulatory | staleness decay | -25 | Blackstone QTS Cambois Campus (Blyth) | Newest regulatory evidence is 2025-03-01 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information). |
| Schedule | baseline | 80 | Blackstone QTS Cambois Campus (Blyth) | No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Schedule | milestone achieved | +5 | Utility Approval | Milestone "Utility Approval" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2025-03-01). |
| Schedule | staleness decay | -25 | Blackstone QTS Cambois Campus (Blyth) | Newest schedule evidence is 2025-03-01 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information). |
Utility approval · Actual:
No active constraint observations recorded against this project.
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Ownership
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| QTS | — | — | |
| Blackstone | — | — |
Every substantive field on this record is backed by a canonical claim from a cited source document, graded on the E1 (strongest) – E5 (weakest) evidence ladder.
Ridge and Partners · Jan 1, 2026 · backs: status
https://ridge.co.uk/insights/enabling-works-now-underway-for-10-billion-qts-data-centre-campus-in-northumberland/
Data Center Dynamics · Mar 1, 2025 · backs: actual date
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/blackstone-gets-green-light-for-10bn-qts-data-center-in-northumberland-uk/
Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.
· Ridge and Partners · relevance 0.95
· Northumberland County Council · relevance 0.85
· Data Center Dynamics · relevance 0.90