VIRTUS Saunderton Data Centre Campus (Haw Lane, Saunderton, Buckinghamshire)

Name: VIRTUS Saunderton Data Centre Campus (Haw Lane, Saunderton, Buckinghamshire)
Address: GB

Announced

United Kingdom · 1 project · Last reported 2026-09-24

Summary

VIRTUS Data Centres' press release dated 24 September 2026 says its new £2.45 billion financing package supports the next phase of expansion, which includes 'the development of the company's 78 MW, AI-ready Saunderton campus in Buckinghamshire'. This dated company disclosure names the Saunderton campus as a development VIRTUS is funding, supporting announced status as of 24 September 2026. The campus is the four-building Saunderton Data Centre Campus (London 15 to London 18) at Haw Lane, Saunderton, for which Virtus Holdco Ltd applied to the Environment Agency for a bespoke permit (EPR/SP3429LN/A001; consultation 28 July to 25 August 2026). No consent, site works or construction stage is asserted: VIRTUS's 2024 statements that the site had approved planning and would be built from Q4 2024 for service in Q2 2026 are old and forecast, and no in-window record of planning consent or physical work was found. evidence

VIRTUS Data Centres · published 2026-09-24

Location

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Projects (1)

VIRTUS Saunderton Campus - LONDON15 to LONDON18 (four data centres, 78 MW IT planned)

Announced last observed as of 2026-09-24 · Project announcement

The Environment Agency's consultation page seeks comments on an environmental permit application received from Virtus Holdco Limited for 'Saunderton Data Centre Campus Haw Lane Saunderton Buckinghamshire HP14 4JD' (application EPR/SP3429LN/A001). It lists the consultation as opened 28 July 2026 and closed 25 August 2026, and links the applicant's non-technical summary. evidence

Environment Agency · published 2026-07-28

VIRTUS's Saunderton Campus page says the campus will deliver 78 MW of IT load across four separate data centres on more than 50 acres, close to the Slough data-centre ecosystem, designed for racks above 100 kW with liquid cooling and 100% renewable power. evidence

VIRTUS Data Centres · publication date not stated

VIRTUS announces plans for a four-data-centre, 75 MW campus on a recently acquired 50-acre freehold plot in Saunderton, Buckinghamshire, close to Slough. It says the site has approved planning and is cleared ready for construction, with construction due to start in Q4 2024 and ready for service in Q2 2026, and that the campus has a National Grid contract for 120 MVA. evidence

VIRTUS Data Centres · published 2024-02-19

Postcode HP14 4JD centroid: easting 480788, northing 198683 (51.681113, -0.832877), positional quality 1, Buckinghamshire, parish Bledlow-cum-Saunderton. evidence

postcodes.io (Ideal Postcodes), from ONS Postcode Directory data · publication date not stated

Companies

Owner: VIRTUS Data Centres (current) evidence
Operator: Virtus Holdco Limited (intended) evidence

Source and location review

Status source

VIRTUS secures £2.45 billion financing package to support continued growth (VIRTUS Data Centres press release, 24 September 2026) evidence row
VIRTUS Data Centres · published 2026-09-24 · Company disclosure

Locator

Campus locator · Compiled location reference · environmental_permit_application_site_grid_reference 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: 33 days before the data update on 2026-10-27

Location details

Coordinates: 51.67946, -0.83291
Geometry licence: all-rights-reserved
Use scope: Campus locator
Scope class: environmental_permit_application_site_grid_reference
Authority: Compiled location reference
Source entity: Campus
Method: permit_application_nts_os_national_grid_reference_480790_198500_epsg27700_to_wgs84_pyproj_3_7_1
Derivation: coordinate_transform
Precision scope: Site grid reference (Ordnance Survey National Grid 480790 198500) given in Virtus Holdco Ltd's non-technical summary for environmental-permit application EPR/SP3429LN/A001, published by the Environment Agency, converted to WGS84 with pyproj 3.7.1 (EPSG:27700 to EPSG:4326). It is a reference point for the whole four-building Saunderton campus; it is not a building footprint, the installation boundary or a surveyed position.
Horizontal uncertainty: Not reported
The non-technical summary gives the grid reference in whole tens of metres with no stated accuracy and does not say which part of the site it marks; the campus covers more than 50 acres, so its buildings extend a few hundred metres around the point.
Geometry evidence: 7dbd97b3

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

Sources are linked, not redistributed; each keeps its own terms. An archived copy is a lookup for the Wayback Machine capture nearest the retrieval date and may be unavailable or differ from what was reviewed. Each hash states what it covers; imported factual records are not publisher-page captures.

Evidence for VIRTUS Saunderton Data Centre Campus (Haw Lane, Saunderton, Buckinghamshire)
Title	Publisher	Roles	Published	Retrieved	Licence	Attribution	Content hash (SHA-256)
Environment Agency consultation: HP14 4JD, Virtus Holdco Limited, EPR/SP3429LN/A001: environmental permit consultation Archived copy	Environment Agency Government record	Site and project identity	2026-07-28	2026-10-23	Open Government Licence v3.0	Environment Agency	`cd43313c7af9de39db4843379109a9ef2d2ea47bb45e3aebf5690a767e877f16` Retained source material; see source provenance
Environmental permit application EPR/SP3429LN/A001, Saunderton Data Centre Campus: non-technical summary (Virtus Holdco Ltd, version 4.0, 23 April 2026), published on the Environment Agency consultation hub Archived copy	Environment Agency (applicant document published with the permit consultation) Regulatory filing	Geometry, Operator claim	not stated	2026-10-23	all-rights-reserved	Virtus Holdco Ltd (prepared by Ramboll UK), published by the Environment Agency	`8e152cd0789c389c82b6860f2ba2e82ce4da5afc30b5ab8b9e8d8404f10ecab0` Retained source material; see source provenance
postcodes.io lookup of HP14 4JD (ONS Postcode Directory centroid) Archived copy	postcodes.io (Ideal Postcodes), from ONS Postcode Directory data Other	Site and project identity	not stated	2026-10-23	Open Government Licence v3.0 (ONS data); postcodes.io service terms	Contains OS data and ONS data, Crown copyright and database right	`093f459e87f182d593c3a5338e714473f4177cbc0a0d91bbab09ea01caa0034f` Retained source material; see source provenance
VIRTUS Data Centres: London Data Centres \| Saunderton Campus (location page) Archived copy	VIRTUS Data Centres Company disclosure	Site and project identity	not stated	2026-10-23	all-rights-reserved	VIRTUS Data Centres	`7fd01ee7d3a1ee5e927bc446d07c37880821163624431bab76a47879b65b3d87` Retained source material; see source provenance
VIRTUS secures £2.45 billion financing package to support continued growth (VIRTUS Data Centres press release, 24 September 2026) Archived copy	VIRTUS Data Centres Company disclosure	Project announcement, Owner claim	2026-09-24	2026-10-23	all-rights-reserved	VIRTUS Data Centres	`f6d634af9fc69f043a49aa2be720a4299272c2d66a8203890337d5c07fec629d` Retained source material; see source provenance
VIRTUS unveils new data centre development in Saunderton, Buckinghamshire (VIRTUS press release, 19 February 2024) Archived copy	VIRTUS Data Centres Company disclosure	Site and project identity	2024-02-19	2026-10-23	all-rights-reserved	VIRTUS Data Centres	`8f53026d3b7d02accb5097da34b1a9e1e0c046526320d71e74e3f0032211961a` Retained source material; see source provenance

Cite this site

Kyars, K. (2026). VIRTUS Saunderton Data Centre Campus (Haw Lane, Saunderton, Buckinghamshire) [site vcc-site-235f690e5edc065dadae]. In Data Center Atlas (2026-10-27) [Data set]. https://kiankyars.github.io/datacenter-atlas/sites/vcc-site-235f690e5edc065dadae/

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