44%
of sites sit in a basin under high water stress or water crisis.
What it meansCooling choices become a territorial question, not only a technical one.
WRI Aqueduct 4.0 · n = 148 United Kingdom
Fleet figures
What public data says about data centers, aggregated site by site. Every figure is dated, sourced and recomputable.
The figure of this edition — on the selected territory
44%
of sites sit in a basin under high water stress or water crisis.
The fleet is here. The water is already under stress.
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ⓘ This is not a ranking. It is the photograph of a territory: what it already hosts, what it can still absorb, and what public files actually allow to know.
1. Can you still build here?
The fleet was built on land already taken — but part of the fleet draws from basins already under stress.
97%
of the fleet is built on already-artificialized soil — not on farmland or natural land.
What it meansThe fleet grows mostly on already-transformed land — not every new project follows that logic.
Corine Land Cover (EEA) · n = 148 United Kingdom
All the figures (2 more)
6%
of sites border a protected natural area, within one kilometre.
Protected areas — EEA CDDA / Natura 2000 · n = 148 United Kingdom
24%
of sites neighbour a high-hazard industrial site, within 2 km.
National registers of high-hazard industrial sites · n = 143 United Kingdom
2. What do we really know about the projects?
Operators disclose their capacity.
0%
of sites disclose their electrical capacity — the basic figure of any public debate.
What it meansThe basic figure of any public debate is usually available.
Operators' public disclosures · n = 148 United Kingdom
3. Where is the fleet heading?
The tracked fleet is already running — but what's coming doesn't always state its capacity.
99%
of the tracked fleet is already operating — we measure what exists, not only what is promised.
What it meansWe measure what exists first, not only what is promised.
ScoreMyDataCenter corpus — project status · n = 148 United Kingdom
0 MW
announced across projects not yet in service (2 projects — 2 do not disclose their capacity).
ScoreMyDataCenter corpus — announced & permitting projects · n = 2 United Kingdom
7
projects under citizen opposition or moratorium — recorded and sourced, never graded on that basis.
What it meansSourced facts, never a grade — context.
Watch layer — sourced facts, never a grade · n = 7 United Kingdom
4. What weighs most here?
The territory's constraints, ranked by the share of sites concerned — a descriptive ranking, never a grade.
1
Water
44%
of sites in high water-stress areas.
2
High-hazard sites
24%
of sites within 2 km of a high-hazard industrial site.
3
Protected areas
6%
of sites within 1 km of a protected natural area.
recomputed per perimeter: share of sites concerned by each constraint
5. Three projects that tell this territory
A mechanical, published selection — the most common profile, the most constrained, the best documented. Real situations behind the aggregates.
LDeX2 — Trafford (ENG)
Site gradeC
- Operational · capacity not disclosed
- On already-artificialized soil
criterion: the territory's modal profile (status, grid, soil, most frequent grade)
View the fiche →4D Gatwick (Crawley) — Crawley (ENG)
Site gradeC
- 2 cumulated territorial constraints
- In a high water-stress area
- High-hazard site within 2 km
criterion: highest cumulated territorial frictions in the perimeter
View the fiche →4D Gatwick (Crawley) — Crawley (ENG)
Site gradeC
- Documentary confidence: low — 34%
- Operational
criterion: highest documentary-confidence score
View the fiche →6. How to read these figures?
No figure on this page is written by hand.
148sites analysed one by one23%average coverage — the gap is displayed100%recomputable (open data, grid and engine)1same method for every territory100%of figures linked to their sources
Figures change when facts change — never to fit the story.
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