Era4 Plans 1 GW Newport Data Center on Former Steelworks Site
Era4 says its planned Newport data center, The Mill, could reach 1 GW and hold the equivalent of 400,000 Nvidia VR200 GPUs; both are targets, and permission covers only modular units.
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The site as it stands today, from Era4's The Mill page. Era4 plans a data center campus here; the 1 GW and 400,000-GPU figures are company targets.
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Source · Press image from the Era4 website, used for news reporting.
Era4, a UK AI infrastructure company, says its planned Newport data center campus in South Wales, called The Mill, could reach 1 GW of power at peak build-out and hold the equivalent of up to 400,000 Nvidia VR200 GPUs, according to the company's website. It lists a phase one live date of 2027 on a 230-acre former steelworks site.
Era4 describes 1 GW and room for 400,000 GPUs as targets; the permission on record covers only modular units in one existing building, per DatacenterDynamics.
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Era4 describes the 1 GW as planned rather than available. Its page says the site will blend the national grid with on-site generation, citing wind and solar and long-term energy contracts, but it gives no split between sources, no grid connection date and no tenant.
