Nineteen megawatts of the United Kingdom’s existing data center capacity was taken-up in the first quarter of 2026, says Savills, as a lack of available options following a record year of take-up in 2025 begins to take effect.
According to Savills, the U.K.’s data center vacancy rate has compressed sharply in the last decade, from 27 percent in 2016 to 8 percent in first quarter 2026, with London’s vacancy rate currently even lower at just 7 percent. A record amount of capacity – 217 megawatts – took space across the country in 2025, up from 212 megawatts in 2024, with 96 megawatts taken in the final quarter of 2025 alone.
The international real estate advisor says that U.K. data center demand is converging on a limited pool of capacity that can be delivered in the right places and within occupiers’ timeframes. While options to expand beyond the capital are increasingly considered, existing and future supply and occupier focus remains still largely concentr
