The planned £400m Global Centre of Rail Excellence (GCRE), which would deliver the world’s first integrated train and rail infrastructure testing facility, has launched a competition to secure an energy and data centre partner which could see a multi-billion-pound investment

The Welsh Government scheme, which is being delivered via its stand alone but wholly-owned business GCRE Ltd, is earmarked for a 700 hectare site spanning the former Nant Helen opencast mine and Onllwyn Washery in the Dulais Valley.

The data centre investment is not dependent on the testing facility being built and would occupy around 70 hectares of the site. Formal requests for proposals are now being sought by GCRE on the back of strong early stage interest, including from developers who would then secure a data ce

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