Scotland is set to host one of the world's largest data centres as part of an £800m project that will include a sustainable village development on the edge of Lockerbie. An outline planning application for this major regeneration project will today be lodged with the Dumfries and Galloway Council, following an extensive community engagement exercise to discuss and promote the proposals, which will see the creation of up to 1,000 permanent jobs on site, and a similar number of construction jobs over the ten year project period.

Lockerbie Data Centres, who own the land needed for what is currently one of the most exciting projects taking place in Scotland, have proposed the £800m Peelhouses Data Centre and Sustainable Village development.

Lockerbie Data Centres is a wholly owned subsidiary of Robison and Davidson (Holdings) Limited, a long established company who have been active in every conceivable building type in the Southwest of Scotland. Construction experience includes schools, factories and medical centres through to nuclear power stations.

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A data centre is a facility used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems. Increasingly businesses and public sector organisations are moving these facilities out of their offices and into separate purpose-built data centres where the equipment is maintained under optimum conditions and managed by specialists.

Organisations that relocate their data centre will be able to declare significant carbon reductions as well as making major cost savings.

In addition to the proposed two hundred and fifty thousand square metre Internet Data Centre, the development will include a new business park providing around twenty thousand square metres of hi-tech office space to attract internet companies to the area creating up to a thousand new jobs, and up to 750 new homes of mixed tenure will be incorporated into a traditional south of Scotland village format which will provide a sustainable living environment. This will serve to go some way to addressing the current housing shortage in Dumfries and Galloway.

David King, Project Director of Lockerbie Data Centres Ltd said: "We are delighted to be lodging an application for one of the most exciting projects currently taking place in Scotland.

"We want to provide something encouraging for Lockerbie, with the support of the Council that will put Dumfries and Galloway firmly on the map as world leaders in data centre provision."

(GK/JM)