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Blackstone QTS Cambois Campus (Blyth)

Blackstone QTS Cambois Campus (Blyth)

Construction
Confirmed

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.

Capacity
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

This project has not been scored yet.

Milestones

  1. Utility Approval

    Achieved

    Utility approval · Actual:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
QTS
Operator
Blackstone
Investor

Sources & citations

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.

  1. 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/

  2. 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/

Signals

Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.

  1. · Ridge and Partners

  2. · Northumberland County Council

  3. · Data Center Dynamics