Hochtief lands £250m Blackpool Silicon Sands data centre deal

Blackpool Council has selected Hochtief Data Centre Partner UK as preferred concessionaire for the £250m first phase of its flagship Silicon Sands digital campus beside Blackpool Airport.
The first phase will deliver a 6MW carbon friendly data centre alongside around 20,000 sq ft of office and research space.The facility has already secured planning permission and will use liquid immersion cooling technology, with waste heat captured and fed into a proposed district heat network serving th