£800m Scottish Data Centre Project Goes Ahead

The Scottish council of Dumfries and Galloway has received documents related to a £800 million data centre that could create up to 1000 new jobs in the region.

The plans for the huge project were submitted by the Lockerbie Data Centres in a bid to build one of the world's largest data centres and comes after another similar application for a nearby site from Internet Villages International was announced back in 2007.

The IVI project, which will be located in the north of Lockerbie, is expected to house a whopping 20 data centres and cost north of £600 million although some estimates put it at nearly £1.2 billion.

The Scottish construction project comes amidst industrywide predictions that nearly 90 percent of data centre storage worldwide will be occupied by 2010 and the £800 million enterprise seeks to corner a fraction of the market.

More than 1000 permanent jobs are expected to be created on the site with another 1000 temporary long-term construction jobs. The data centre compound will also include high tech office space, a business park and up to 750 new homes as part of a sustainable village.

Scotland has also been targeted by Microsoft as the company partnered with IT Firm Alchemy Plus to announce at £20 million "cloud computing" data centre in Inverness that should come in operation by the end of 2010 creating 400 new jobs in the area.

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