Didcot North Data Centre Campus (former Didcot A Power Station), Amazon Data Services UK

Name: Didcot North Data Centre Campus (former Didcot A Power Station), Amazon Data Services UK
Address: GB

Announced

United Kingdom · 1 project · Last reported 2026-07-27

Summary

On 27 July 2026 the Environment Agency granted Amazon Data Services UK Limited permit EPR/GP3127LV for 129 standby generators (about 925 MWth) serving four planned data-centre buildings, DCA, DCB, DCC and DCD, at Didcot North Data Centre Campus on the former Didcot A Power Station. This dated regulatory record identifies the project and supports announced status only. An air or combustion permit is not planning consent, and pre-operational commissioning conditions remain. Planning permission, physical construction, IT capacity and operation are not established. evidence

Environment Agency · published 2026-08-03

Location

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Campus reference; individual project footprints are not mapped.

Projects (1)

AWS Didcot North Data Centre Campus (DCA-DCD)

Announced last observed as of 2026-07-27 · Project announcement

GOV.UK decision page, published 3 August 2026, for permit EPR/GP3127LV/A001 issued under the Industrial Emissions Directive. It names the operator, Amazon Data Services UK Limited, and the installation, Didcot North Data Centre Campus, former Didcot A Power Station, Didcot, OX11 7BF, and links the permit and decision document. evidence

Environment Agency · published 2026-08-03

Companies

Operator: Amazon Data Services UK Limited (intended) evidence

Source and location review

Status source

Environment Agency permitting decision document EPR/GP3127LV/A001: Didcot North Data Centre Campus, Amazon Data Services UK Limited (granted 27 July 2026) evidence row
Environment Agency · published 2026-08-03 · Government record

Locator

Campus locator · Compiled location reference · official_permit_installation_site_centre_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: 92 days before the data update on 2026-10-27

Location details

Coordinates: 51.62262, -1.25830
Geometry licence: Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated
Use scope: Campus locator
Scope class: official_permit_installation_site_centre_grid_reference
Authority: Compiled location reference
Source entity: Campus
Method: official_ea_permit_site_centre_ngr_su5144391794_epsg27700_to_wgs84_pyproj_3_7_1
Derivation: coordinate_transform
Precision scope: Centre of the roughly 23 ha permitted installation site, as the Environment Agency gives it (NGR SU 51443 91794 = E 451443, N 191794), converted to WGS84 with pyproj 3.7.1 (EPSG:27700 to EPSG:4326). It locates the campus site centre, not an individual data-centre building, footprint, entrance or legal boundary.
Horizontal uncertainty: Not reported
The regulator publishes a 1 m grid reference for the site centre but no positional accuracy; buildings may lie up to roughly 300 m from the centre of a 23 ha site.
Geometry evidence: 403e1b71

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 Didcot North Data Centre Campus (former Didcot A Power Station), Amazon Data Services UK
Title	Publisher	Roles	Published	Retrieved	Licence	Attribution	Content hash (SHA-256)
Environment Agency permit EPR/GP3127LV with introductory note: Amazon Data Services UK Limited, Didcot North Data Centre Campus, former Didcot A Power Station, Didcot OX11 7BF Archived copy	Environment Agency Government record	Geometry, Operator claim	2026-08-03	2026-10-16	Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated	Environment Agency	`321370de423b66ac3dd2a2ce9c58951a7f9edf8bb2f9d2355bac08eac61fec6f` Retained source material; see source provenance
Environment Agency permitting decision document EPR/GP3127LV/A001: Didcot North Data Centre Campus, Amazon Data Services UK Limited (granted 27 July 2026) Archived copy	Environment Agency Government record	Project announcement	2026-08-03	2026-10-16	Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated	Environment Agency	`31b2c1dab04bfc3b85f195177d19bf72a19a730edda4fb5ee05b90e251f48c62` Retained source material; see source provenance
GOV.UK: OX11 7BF, Amazon Data Services UK Limited: environmental permit issued - EPR/GP3127LV/A001 Archived copy	Environment Agency Government record	Site and project identity	2026-08-03	2026-10-16	Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated	Environment Agency	`fe0ef9993a548ae08b8e81d5ab963bdd8a300ce64eaee2754cf8c959cff75c6d` Retained source material; see source provenance

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Cite this site

Kyars, K. (2026). Didcot North Data Centre Campus (former Didcot A Power Station), Amazon Data Services UK [site vcc-site-daa4cf7bcc8ec4f62689]. In Data Center Atlas (2026-10-27) [Data set]. https://kiankyars.github.io/datacenter-atlas/sites/vcc-site-daa4cf7bcc8ec4f62689/

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