Cobalt Park data centre campus has the power and connectivity to support AI and Cloud workloads at scale
Stellium Datacenters to support AI Growth Zone in North East UK
Cobalt Park data centre campus has the power and connectivity to support AI and Cloud workloads at scale
Newcastle, UK – 18 September 2025: Stellium Datacenters, the operator of one of the UK’s largest purpose-built data centres, today welcomed the announcement that Cobalt Park is to be designated as an AI Growth Zone by HM Government.
The announcement by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology [Press Release] designated Cobalt Park alongside a site in Blyth where QTS/Blackstone propose a new data centre facility reported as for delivery between 2028 – 2035.
At the heart of the Cobalt Park data centre campus near Newcastle in North East UK is Stellium’s 4,264 square metres REGO-certified renewably powered DC1. This is connected directly to the National Grid, offering abundant power for supporting cloud and AI workloads at scale. For optimised energy efficiency, Stellium benefits from the naturally cooler North of England climate and a location with the lowest carbon intensity output rating of any region in the UK.
Noel Meaney, Founder and CEO, Stellium Datacenters, said: “We are delighted to have been chosen to be part of the new AI Growth Zone in the North East and help support world leading AI tech companies with state-of-the-art data centre infrastructure, therefore playing an important part in ensuring the UK’s future as an AI innovator.”
He added: “This is a huge endorsement of our North East location, the quality of our highly scalable renewable energy-powered data centre and the IT engineering excellence of our on-site team.”
As a major carrier-neutral telecom hub, Stellium Datacenters offers high quality connectivity to local, national and global carrier networks. It is uniquely positioned as the only UK data centre with a secure landing station, housing the world’s latest subsea cable networks including AquaComms (to/from the US on the North Atlantic Loop) and Altibox (to/from the Nordics/Mainland Europe on NO-UK),. This enables the facility to handle large international workloads to enable low latency, low cost connectivity to US, FLAP-D1 and Nordic markets.
Additionally, Stellium owns a 40 km carrier-neutral Metropolitan Area optical fibre network (MAN), supporting the North East’s digital economy, and hosts the NCL-IX Exchange which offers multiple peering opportunities to customers in the region, minimising their latency and data transit costs.
The Stellium facility has achieved multiple data centre and network ISO certifications and last year became one of the first data centres in the UK to achieve Open Compute Project (OPC) compliance, making it ideally suited to supporting the exponential demand for High Performance Computing (HPC) as well as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) workloads. As part of Stellium’s OCP Ready™ provision, it can provide HPC cooling of client racks from 10 to 200kW using in-row/rear door chilled water cooling. Bespoke designs can be supported for fully immersive cooling up to 200kW per rack.
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About Stellium Datacenters
Stellium owns and operates one of the largest purpose-built carrier-neutral data centres in the UK and is the home of the UKs newest Internet Exchange NCL-IX (Newcastle Internet Exchange).
Stellium’s Tier 3+ data centre offers the UKs leading data centre SLAs, is OCP Ready™, ISO-27001, ISO-14001, ISO-9001, ISO-20000, ISO-22301, PSN Network and Cyber Essentials+ certified, with direct access to 100% renewable power.
Stellium offers the highest quality connectivity to local, national, and global fibre networks, for low-latency, high-capacity open network connection. In addition to being the UK’s only data centre hosting the cable landing station for the new Altibox Carrier/NO-UK cable from the Nordics and mainland Europe, Stellium’s data centre is also the UK hub for data transmitted between the United States, the UK and Europe on the North Atlantic Loop, a new transatlantic subsea fibre network provided by AquaComms.
Stellium offers its clients a range of custom services, including IXP services, cloud-based delivery of applications and services, remote hands and cross connect services and powered-shell data centres.
For further information:
Stellium Datacenters
Ed Bissell – Sales Director
www.stelliumdc.com
Tel: +44 (0)191 3897 130
