Slough Trading Estate

The Slough Trading Estate, founded in Slough in Buckinghamshire in 1920, is a business park in Britain. According to the estate's owners and operators, Segro, Slough Trading Estate consists of 2 km2 of commercial property in Slough and provides 0.7 km2 of accommodation to 500 businesses and has a working population of about 20 000 people. Slough Trading Estate is the largest industrial estate in single private ownership in Europe. The estate is home to over 600 buildings and 400 tenants from countries such as the US, France, Italy, Japan, Germany, and South Korea. Companies using the park include Fiat, Centrica, Hibu, Electrolux, GSK, Mars Confectionery, Akzo Nobel, Virgin Media, O2, AxFlow UK, the datacentre operator Network-i and OKI Printing Solutions. It is also home to important small, medium, and large businesses. SEGRO has also developed more than 30 data centres at Slough Trading Estate, making it one of Europe’s largest data centre clusters according to industry reports. Electricity generated at the Slough Trading Estate power station is exported to the National Grid, while heat and utilities are supplied to commercial users on the estate rather than to local residential customers.

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