Segro Advances UK Data Center Strategy with Two Major Projects in Slough and West London
March 16, 2026
UK real estate investment trust Segro has announced significant progress in its data center expansion, securing a pre-lease for a new facility in Slough and planning approval for a joint venture project in West London. These moves underscore the intense demand for digital infrastructure in the London area, a critical hub for cloud and AI services, and highlight Segro's strategic shift from providing basic building shells to developing fully operational data centers.
The company confirmed this week it has signed a pre-lease agreement with an existing customer to develop a 50MW powered shell data center on the Slough Trading Estate. The three-story facility will offer approximately 30,000 square meters (322,917 square feet) of technical space and benefits from streamlined approvals under the estate's Simplified Planning Zone. Separately, Segro, in partnership with Pure Data Centres Group, received planning committee approval for its first fully fitted data center at its Premier Park site in Park Royal, West London. This joint venture project, announced in May 2025, is designed for a 70MW utility power load with 56MW of IT capacity across 30,000 square meters and is slated for an unnamed hyperscale tenant.
Andrew Pilsworth, Segro's Managing Director of Data Centers and Strategic Partnerships, linked the announcements to the company's broader portfolio potential. "These two announcements demonstrate further progress in our strategy to execute on the 2.5GW+ opportunity in our powered land bank," he stated. He noted that the established cluster and planning status in Slough were integral to facilitating the campus expansion for a customer on a relatively small 3.5-acre plot. Regarding the West London project, he added, "Securing planning committee approval at Premier Park is also an important milestone for both our Pure JV at the site and, more broadly, in the evolution of Segro’s fully fitted data center development strategy."
The developments signal a notable evolution for Segro. Having supplied powered shells for about two decades, the firm now has around 500MW of data center capacity in operation or development in the Slough area alone. The company estimates a further potential of over 1.8GW across its UK and European land bank. Historically serving colocation providers, Segro's foray into fully fitted facilities directly targeting hyperscalers marks a strategic pivot to capture a larger share of the booming data center market driven by cloud computing and artificial intelligence.
Source: datacenterdynamics
