Eclipse Power Networks has secured a significant contract with Colt Data Centre Services to adopt and maintain grid connections totalling 250 MW for its hyper–scale data centre campus at Hayes, in the UK.
Under the contract, Eclipse will adopt a 132 kV dual-circuit connection from National Grid’s Uxbridge Moor substation, providing 100 MW of power to the campus. In addition, Eclipse will adopt a 66 kV dual-circuit connection from National Grid’s North Hyde substation for a further 150 MW of power. These two connections are designed to support the campus of five data halls, each individually metered via Eclipse Power Networks’ network at 11 kV.
The project demonstrates Eclipse Powers’ innovative approach to network infrastructure adoption, working collaboratively with Colt Data Centre Services and their appointed Independent Connection Provider (ICP) to ensure that the network is designed, built, owned and operated as efficiently and economically as possible, while maintaining security of supply through direct connections to the transmission system.
David Swadling, Group Sales director at Eclipse Power said: “We worked collaboratively and transparently with Colt Data Centre Services to help them develop a complex commercial model that that provided an innovative and equitable economical solution never seen before in Great Britain.”
David Knox, global director of Energy & Sustainability at Colt Data Centre Services, said: “As the UK aims to reach the next level in the global digital marketplace, customers require scale in their data centre solutions. Sustainable, hyperscale sites such as our Hayes campus not only require power supply security, but they must also have the expansion potential necessary to support growth.”
With data halls across five floors and 175 MW of IT power, Colt ‘s Hayes campus represents a major investment in data centre infrastructure. Energisation of the site is scheduled for 2028, with the network infrastructure provided by Eclipse designed to last a minimum of forty years.
