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Dumfries and Galloway planning officials have given the go ahead to UK’s largest data centre, set to be built in Lockerbie.

The £950m, 250,000m² project is being developed by Lockerbie Data Centres, a subsidiary of local firm, Robison and Davison, and will be attached to a business park with 18,000m² of high-tech office space.

The development will create 3,000 jobs in construction over a five to 10 year construction period – 900 through business attracted to the business park and 50 to operate the data centre. It will attract an estimated £3.5bn of inward investment, according to the firm.

Very cool, I wonder what technologies they will be using as part of the data center design in terms of energy efficiency and best practice. It will be interesting to see if the data center is being built with a specific use or market place in mind, Grid computing? Virtualization in cloud or data center space? We’ll have to see. I’m off to read up more.

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