Ventus · GlobalGrid2050 · Great Britain

Data Centres GB

An independent open-source workstream for mapping data centres, separating every source, and connecting digital-infrastructure demand to the physical electricity grid.

Repository live API experimental Provenance first

564UK data centres cited as listed by the BBC, 29 July 2026

125 GWelectricity connection capacity requested, up from 41 GW in one year

£237,500–£712,500/MWOfgem's proposed refundable connection deposit range

Open repository Code, data contracts and development Develop the data-centre layer independently without burying it inside the main GlobalGrid2050 repository. Open API Source-separated data adapter FastAPI service with provenance labels, retrieval timestamps, caching and conservative parsing. Source · separate Data Center Map · London Public directory source retained separately rather than silently merged into a single untraceable dataset. Context source BBC · grid-connection demand Public context for the rapid increase in connection requests and Ofgem's proposed deposit mechanism. World-grid platform Return to GlobalGrid2050 Connect this independent dataset to the wider grid-development, engineering and infrastructure platform. Federation The Spider 🕷 Inspect the relationship between this repository, the current homepage, the next homepage and the wider federation.

Source records remain source-labelled. Counts, ownership, operational status, coordinates and power demand must not be treated as verified merely because a listing exists. Future sources should be added through separate adapters and reconciled only through explicit evidence rules.