This document outlines a vision to establish the Sheffield City Region in the UK as a hub for next-generation data center capacity and digital innovation. It proposes developing a premier data center campus, collaboration hubs, and facilitating pivotal digital projects. A consortium including the local government, private sector experts, and construction companies would work with national government to support this plan by developing infrastructure and attracting inward investment to the region. The document argues that the Sheffield City Region is an ideal location for data centers due to available land, existing power infrastructure, fiber networks, climate, and support for green energy development.

1. TechCity Sheffield
Establishing Sheffield City Region
as the UK hub for next genera:on
data centre capacity and other
opportuni:es
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2. TechCity Sheffield: the vision
Sheffield City Region
as the leading loca:on
in the UK and northern
Europe for the
establishment of a
technology hub,
incorpora:ng next
genera6on green Delivery of the vision is underpinned by robust
data centres, public sector and na:onal Government support
coupled with expert private sector partners
collabora6on hubs and
science park facili:es, and
facilita:ng the delivery of
pivotal digital projects
with na:onal impact.

3. Components and inter‐rela:onship
Inward Accelerate
investment high growth THREE
businesses
Private
INTERCONNECTING
investment Skills ELEMENTS
development
1. Next Genera6on
Data Centre campus
2. Collabora6on Hubs
across City Region connected
New Public to other UK Collabora:on
business sector Hubs
forma:on TechCity
Sheffield efficiency 3. Pivotal Digital Projects,
including public sector
Pivotal digital plaMorm
projects eg. public
service plaMorm These are combined in such a
Secure
Sustainable compe::ve way to maximise opportuni:es to
job crea:on advantage the City region and the na:onal
for UK economy – and through TechCity
Growth through exports

4. Next Genera6on
Green Data centres

5. Overview
Tech City Datacentre Campus Ltd (TCDC) working with its partners and with
Sheffield City Region Local Enterprise Partnership (SCR LEP) is leading the
development
Crea6ng next genera6on Based in Sheffield City Establishing a premier
data centre capacity Region which provides facility for Northern
in the UK the ideal loca6on Europe incorpora6ng
• required to meet • availability of abundant • mul:ple data centre sites at
Government’s G‐cloud agenda very low cost land the core of TechCity Sheffield
and the accelera:ng shiX to • under‐u:lised power • building infrastructure able to
cloud infrastructure meet current and future needs
• energy efficiency and • locally of Tier1 Cloud vendors
complementary renewable owned • a leading loca:on to s:mulate
Barnsley Doncaster
energy development essen:al fibre
components new business development and
network 2"#3#() Rotherham
aRract UK and interna:onal
• exploi:ng Sheffield City Region • climate
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investment in further data
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centre space and the
Derbyshire
Dales
N.E.
Derbyshire associated technology
opportuni:es

6. TCDC consor:um working with SCR
Sheffield City LEP has
worked with
Data centre project leader
City Region local authori:es
Private sector company formed by and TCDC to form an expert
technology experts partnering Sheffield
City Region to deliver the TechCity
consor:um to deliver the
Sheffield project data centre infrastructure
Consul6ng Consul6ng Project manager Construc6on Architects and
engineer to the engineer to the of design & masterplanners
project project development of
the data centres
Interna:onal firm Management, Leading European Real estate Foremost prac:ce
of designers, engineering and specialist development and of architects,
planners, development developer and construc:on designers,
engineers, consultancy for operator of data company based in engineers and
consultants and public and private centres the Sheffield City urbanists in
technical clients world‐wide Region Europe
specialists

7. Working with Government
Local government and the LEP working with private partners to drive
TechCity Sheffield, with central government support.
TechCity Sheffield is one Working with central
of SCR’s main priori6es government
• Support for planning, • Working with Govt to specify
including development of planned SCR data centres in
master plan for City Region accordance with govt service
• Support for site acquisi:on level requirements
• Support for power delivery, • data centre development
including regional strategy for • Work in conjunc:on with
development of green energy central government to
• Support for funding of data develop and clarify G‐Cloud
centres via demand requirements
aggrega:on
• Partners in Collabora:on
Hubs and the public sector
plaMorm project

8. Sheffield City Region – the best choice
Sheffield City Region 6cks all the boxes for loca6ng datacentres
!" CLIMATE
Sheffield City Region’s climate is just right. With a west to east wind for low cost
year round cooling.
!" POWER
SCR is a net exporter of power and sits on the densest part of the UK high voltage network.
Sheffield City Region is evolving its renewables and green energy strategy informed by data
centre requirements. Exis:ng surplus of power infrastructure built to serve steel industry
available for planned data centre projects
!" CONNECTIVITY
Europe’s largest public funded fibre altnet, Digital Region provides private dark fibre backbone,
and the central UK loca:on reaches all major nodes.
!" SITES
Thanks to its industrial heritage, low cost sites are plen:ful in SCR. TCDC have evaluated all
suitable sites in the SCR in conjunc:on with local authori:es and its consor:um
!" RENEWABLES
SCR has a strong renewable energy track record and has natural legacy to host large scale
renewable energy infrastructure including wind farm, biomass, solar PV and heat reten:on
networks

9. Sheffield City Region – Strategic loca:on
Carbon capture power
sta:on (HaMield)
Barnsley Doncaster Edinburgh
Glasgow
Manchester
Sheffield
2"#3#() Rotherham
London
Peak District
Bassetlaw
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Bolsover
!"#$%#&'#() UK fibre trunks
N.E.
Derbyshire
Derbyshire
Dales
Tier 1 Telco Meadowhall New Biomass plant
Nodes Shopping Mall
University of Sheffield Former Major
Sheffield Hallam Steelworks
University Interna:onal fibre
Digital Region Coverage trunks
Note
Na:onal Telco The en:re north, east and south of the
Trunk Routes city region are former major coal
mining areas

10. What is TCDC crea:ng?
CORE WHOLESALE DATACENTRE CAMPUS
• Three large scale, green data centres geographically separate
integrated through power and connec:vity
• Specified to meet requirements of G‐Cloud hos:ng, public sector
clients, financial services and Cloud vendors
• Highest levels of efficiency, security and resilience
• Associated and complementary renewable energy development
• Designing specifica:on u:lising exis:ng Digital Region next gen fibre
network capabili:es
TURNKEY SOFT‐LANDING ASSOCIATED SCIENCE
OFFER FOR ADDITIONAL PARK & COLLABORATION
DATA CENTRE CAPACITY SPACE
• Space, power and fibre • Directly funding the
infrastructure capacity to development of associated
support addi:onal third 21st century Science and
party data centres in business park
mul:ple sites across the
Sheffield City region

11. Other opportuni6es
Collabora:on, public sector plaMorm,
product tes:ng and R&D

12. Collabora:on for transforma:on
CENTRAL HUB CULTIVATING MATURITY
Hosts public sector operators, Knowledge, experience and trust
Academia, Tier1 Techs, SMEs, is built through supported
Entrepreneurs and grass roots collabora:ons and by refining
developers the collabora:on processes
CO‐LOCATION BUILDING CAPABILITY FOR
Fosters openness of innova:on COMPLEXITY
and allows for cross‐pollina:on Collaborators become beRer
of ideas and prac:ce equipped to effec:vely tackle
COLLABORATION ON PIVOTAL more complex challenges
COLLABORATION CAMPUS PROJECTS DELIVERS
A place to learn how to TRANSFORMATION IN CAPACITY FOR SCALE OF IMPACT
collaborate and to prac:ce PUBLIC SERVICES Allowing collaborators to
collabora:on by doing innovate na:onally and globally
Design and
Public Sector ICT manufacturing Smart Healthcare
E‐learning
Services PlaMorm infrastructure transforma:on
plaMorm

13. Public sector services plaMorm
Public Sector services
Web, mobile, app store, social network embedded
Tier 1 plaorm Tier 2s & SMEs Public sector
ins6tu6ons
Federated public sector plaorm Tier1 plaorm
Data centre
infrastructures

14. Product Tes:ng and R&D opportunity
DIGITAL REGION – reaching 1.3 million people, 546,000 homes, 40,000 businesses
What is it? Why is it important?
• Newly completed FTTC • Enabling connec:vity
network servicing South between consumers,
Yorkshire businesses and public sector
Doncaster • Largest independent Next infrastructure
Barnsley
Genera:on Network in • Demographics include large
Europe city, large and small town,
2"#3#() Rotherham
semi‐rural.
• Owned by the public sector • Poten:al to be the largest
Peak District
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Bassetlaw
• Extensive network with 1360 living lab in Europe
Bolsover
!"#$%#&'#() new street cabinets installed • Needs investment to build
including space for expansion out wireless infrastructure
N.E.
Derbyshire
(wireless poten:al for
Derbyshire
Dales
ubiquity)
Digital Region Coverage
Owned Supported
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15. Summary

16. Opportuni:es
Turnkey offer for Invest in Wireless Invest in Partner in
high quality development of development of development of
wholesale data Digital Region collabora6on public sector
centre centre services plaorm
• Mul:ple • Create large • Foster • Engage in
suitable sites living lab for developer developing next
• Rent or own product and community, genera:on
• Abbreviated content tes:ng supply chain public sector
planning • Device and and engage services
process applica:on with public plaMorm
tes:ng sector and • Directly
• Expert support
pivotal digital Influence UK
and local
projects Gov strategy
knowledge &
skills