Queensway Park has been granted consent for a £100m data centre campus in Fife.
Once completed, Queensway Park will be the largest co-location data centre campus in Scotland with a development value approaching £100m.
The scheme comprises two cloud hosting facilities at Queensway Park in Glenrothes. The first will cover an area of more than 90,000 sq ft and is expected to be ready for occupation towards the end of 2016.
In addition to state of the art data halls for high-performance computer racks, the development will include Grade A office accommodation with a security centre, client space and facilities management operation.
A pre-application notice was lodged with the council in January last year and was welcomed by council leaders as a strategically important part of Scotland’s technology infrastructure.
Robin Presswood, head of economy, planning and employability services, said: “This as an important piece of business infrastructure that Fife can offer companies looking for improved business performance through cloud computing and to companies using big data to identify new business trends and opportunities, particularly in financial services and the energy industries.”
