North Devon farmland is no place for 1.5GW
Xlinks plans a 1.5GW AI data centre and a huge battery site on about 850 acres of farmland near Great Torrington. It says applications will go to Torridge District Council in the new year. More than 37,000 people have already signed the local petition.
- Ref
- None yet
- Decides
- Torridge District Council
- Size
- 1.5GW, 344 ha
- Next
- Planning application expected
North Devon is already organised: please sign the Leave Devon Alone petition and join Devon CPRE's objector register. Sign up here and we'll tell you the moment Xlinks lodges its applications, so you can object.
Why local people are worried
Get ready to object
There's no planning application yet, so there's nothing formal to object to. This is the time to get organised, tell the developer and councillors what you think, and be ready when the application goes in.
- Good planning grounds include: impact on the Green Belt or countryside, energy use and carbon, water supply, noise, traffic, wildlife and heritage. Developers' promises are not guarantees: ask for them to be made binding.
Respond to Xlinks' consultation (valeon@devondatacampus.com for the data centre, battery@devondatacampus.com for the battery storage, freephone 0800 888 6922); register with Devon CPRE's objector register; object formally on Torridge's planning portal once applications are lodged
We link to everyone working on this. Please support them too.
- Introduce urgent moratorium on AI Data Centres and BESS outside AI Growth Zones (UK Parliament petition 776949) (38,372 signatures)
- Devon CPRE objector register: AI data centre and battery field (4,185 signatures)
- Leave Devon Alone! Say No to Devon Data Campus (37,603 signatures)
- Devon Data and BESS Action Group
- GoFundMe campaign against the proposal
Every fact on this page is sourced. See the full record on Data Centre Watch. Last checked 3 October 2026.