The Longmarsh Green Energy project would cover around 4,695 acres, an area larger than 2,600 football pitches, between King’s Lynn and Downham Market.

The data centre would need up to 1GW of power at any one time, while the accompanying solar farm would generate up to 1.3GW of electricity, more than any other currently planned in the UK, and include battery storage.

Where the Keswick data centre would be built (Image: Bill Smith)

It comes as thousands of people have raised concerns about a 150MW data centre planned at Keswick, on the edge of Norwich, amid fears over noise and its impact on nearby Marston Marshes.

Under the Longmarsh plans, developer Evolution Power Limited (EPL) wants to build across two sites, one south of the A47 near Tilney St Lawrence and the other near the villages of........

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