Is your site a
data centre?
An independent, evidence-based assessment for landowners, developers and investors — what your site can realistically support, what it's worth, and the right path to unlock it.
Prepared for — Client Name · July 2026
What we'll cover.
- 01The data centre opportunity
- 02What makes a site suitable
- 03What the assessment delivers
- 04Case study & why Optronix
- 05Working with us
Demand is compounding.
Suitable sites are scarce.
Cloud adoption, AI workloads and digitisation are driving operators and investors to hunt for land, industrial buildings and legacy facilities across the UK and Europe.
Three paths. Very
different outcomes.
Develop & operate
The highest return — and the highest capital requirement and delivery risk. You build it, you run it.
Develop & lease
Bring in an operator partner — long-term income with shared risk, at the cost of a slice of the upside.
Sell with consent
Sell the land and planning consent to a specialist buyer — the fastest, cleanest capital event.
Each path carries different capital, risk, timelines and returns. Choosing between them on evidence is what the assessment is for.
Operators score every site the same way.
Technical criteria
Commercial criteria
Existing industrial assets are
frequently undervalued.
Power infrastructure, structural steel, clear-span floor plates and established grid connections would cost tens of millions to replicate from scratch. Our assessment quantifies what is already in place — and what it is worth to a data centre developer or operator.
connections
infrastructure
steel
floor plates
Six workstreams. One clear recommendation.
Site & infrastructure
Structural review, power availability, cooling potential, connectivity and asset condition.
Planning & regulatory
Development plan alignment, planning history, constraints and likely consent timeline.
Grid & power analysis
Existing capacity, upgrade pathway and cost, renewables options, DNO engagement.
Market demand
Operator demand, competitive supply, hyperscale vs colocation vs edge fit for your site.
Financial modelling
Three-scenario ROI model — develop & operate, develop & lease, or sell — with payback and risk-adjusted return.
Strategic recommendation
Not a list of options — a considered, evidence-backed view on the right path for your situation.
If the answer is sell —
we know the buyers.
Optronix maintains active relationships with four qualified operators and investors currently seeking UK and European sites — from single-digit MW to campus scale, greenfield to legacy facilities.
The introduction service is independent of the assessment — no obligation, terms agreed before any approach is made.
Where your site fits a live requirement, we arrange the introduction and support the technical dialogue on both sides.
The assessment stands alone. Our recommendation is credible to investors precisely because we don't need it to end in a sale.
A 200-acre university campus, two latent assets.
An ageing 800kW facility and decades of surplus land. We assessed both in parallel — surveys, DNO engagement, planning review, market study and a four-path financial model — and the result went straight to the governing council.
Outcome — a dual-track strategy: phased refurbishment + planning application for a new 5MW facility on surplus land.
We assess sites the way we build them.
We build these things
We deliver data centre infrastructure for some of the world's most demanding operators — AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, Meta. We know exactly what they look for, because we deliver it every day.
EMEA-wide perspective
Active across the UK, Europe and the Middle East, with reach into North America, Singapore, Australia and Japan — so your site is benchmarked against real competing locations.
Independent advice
A standalone advisory engagement — not a construction contract through the back door. If the right answer is to sell rather than develop, that's what we'll tell you.
End-to-end capability
If development is the answer, we take you from planning to a live facility — design, procurement, project management, commissioning and operations.
Fixed fee. Fixed scope. 90 days.
Consultation
A structured briefing on the site, your objectives and known constraints.
Scope & fee
Detailed scope and fixed-fee proposal within five working days.
Site investigation
On-site surveys and primary data — typically two to three visits.
Analysis & modelling
Market research, grid and planning engagement, scenario financial model.
Draft & workshop
Draft report with a walkthrough session on findings and questions.
Final delivery
Completed assessment plus a board-ready executive summary.
£75,000 – £100,000 fixed, staged against milestones — against typical development capital of £5–10m per MW, clarity at this stage is cheap.
Find out what your site
is really worth.
info@optronix.co.uk · optronix.co.uk