Google Waltham Cross data centre

Name: Google Waltham Cross data centre
Address: GB

Operational

United Kingdom · 1 project · Last reported 2025-09-16

Summary

Google data centre on a 33-acre site in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, England. Google announced a $1 billion investment in the new facility in January 2024, describing air-based cooling with provision for off-site heat recovery to nearby homes and businesses. Chancellor Rachel Reeves opened the data centre in September 2025, when Google also announced a two-year GBP 5 billion UK investment covering capital spending, R&D and engineering. Google says the site supports AI services, Google Cloud, Search and Maps. Power capacity has not been disclosed.

Source record as of 2025-09-16 · Details and sources

Location

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Town or locality reference only; the facility position is not established.

Projects (1)

Google Waltham Cross data centre

Operational last observed as of 2025-09-16 · Reported status

Location: Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, England, GB. Town centroid of Waltham Cross via Nominatim; Google's sources name the town but not the street address. Google; Google; Google

Use: Cloud, Ai unspecified

Capacity, investment and other figures

Measure	Value	Scope	As of	Notes	Sources
Investment	1,000,000,000 USD	Announced · Campus	2024-01-18		Google
Land area	33 acres	Reported · Campus	2024-01-18		Google

Companies and organizations

Name	Role	Notes	Sources
Google	Developer		Google
Google	Operator		Google; Google

Timeline

Date	Event	Actual or planned	Notes	Sources
2024-01-18	Announced	Actual		Google
2025-09-16	First operational	Actual	Opening by the Chancellor reported in Google's post of this date.	Google; Google

Power supply

Type	Description	Sources
Wind	Google's 2022 offshore wind PPA with ENGIE for the Moray West farm in Scotland, adding 100 MW to the grid, covers its UK operations rather than this site alone.	Google
Battery storage	Shell manages Google's UK carbon-free energy portfolio and is to deploy battery technology that stores surplus clean energy for the grid; the arrangement is UK-wide, not specific to this site.	Google

The GBP 5 billion figure announced at the opening is a two-year UK-wide programme covering capital spending, R&D and engineering, including Google DeepMind research, so it is not recorded as a campus investment. Google's location page says the facility uses air cooling that limits water use to domestic needs.

Sources for these details

Our $1 billion investment in a new UK data centre — Google; 2024-01-18
Our new Waltham Cross data center is part of our two-year, £5 billion investment to help power the UK's AI economy — Google; 2025-09-16
Waltham Cross, United Kingdom - Google Data Center Location — Google; publication date not stated · Archived source

Companies

Developer: Google (unknown scope) evidence
Operator: Google (unknown scope) evidence
Operator: Google (unknown scope) evidence

Source and location review

Status source

Our new Waltham Cross data center is part of our two-year, £5 billion investment to help power the UK's AI economy evidence row
Google · published 2025-09-16 · Company disclosure

Locator

Locality reference only · Compiled location reference · locality evidence

Source checks

Not reviewed against imagery not_reviewed
No imagery review is recorded for this project. Its status rests only on the dated authoritative source. · no independent imagery verification

Status age at review: 406 days before the data update on 2026-10-27

Location details

Coordinates: 51.68580, -0.03300
Geometry licence: source-terms-not-recorded
Use scope: Locality reference only
Scope class: locality
Authority: Compiled location reference
Source entity: Project
Method: imported_reference_point
Derivation: imported_reference_point
Precision scope: Town centroid of Waltham Cross via Nominatim; Google's sources name the town but not the street address.
Horizontal uncertainty: Not reported
The source record provides no measured horizontal uncertainty; original coordinate precision and note are preserved.
Geometry evidence: 99547e51

A locator places the site on the map. It is not a building footprint, a construction extent or a surveyed boundary unless the use scope is an official boundary, and even then it is a parcel or permit boundary.

Evidence

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Evidence for Google Waltham Cross data centre
Title	Publisher	Roles	Published	Retrieved	Licence	Attribution	Content hash (SHA-256)
Our $1 billion investment in a new UK data centre Archived copy	Google Company disclosure	Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record, Metric: Investment, Metric: Land Area, Milestone: Announced, Power Source: Wind, Role: Developer	2024-01-18	2026-10-09	source-terms-not-recorded	Google	`80fd8f1a8310d706a6177fbfe1cbef5e137b911f9cee0b77369829b77411ab98` Factual source record; not the publisher page
Our new Waltham Cross data center is part of our two-year, £5 billion investment to help power the UK's AI economy Archived copy	Google Company disclosure	Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record, Imported: Status, Milestone: First Operational, Power Source: Battery Storage, Operator claim	2025-09-16	2026-10-09	source-terms-not-recorded	Google	`afdb12348c055c23b3ae941834b6432f3321ca6ba3ef98e452612432e9bb6046` Factual source record; not the publisher page
Waltham Cross, United Kingdom - Google Data Center Location Archived copy	Google Company disclosure	Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record, Imported: Status, Milestone: First Operational, Operator claim	not stated	2026-10-09	source-terms-not-recorded	Google	`77084937c1c001dd93891f4f4ad1d2627605c24bc7ed71405fc2d2a354b7c3e3` Factual source record; not the publisher page

Cite this site

Kyars, K. (2026). Google Waltham Cross data centre [site vcc-site-078fc4166e995b536458]. In Data Center Atlas (2026-10-27) [Data set]. https://kiankyars.github.io/datacenter-atlas/sites/vcc-site-078fc4166e995b536458/

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