Reabold Resources says the UK Government's new British data center covenant supports its proposed plan to run a data center on gas from the West Newton field. The company welcomed the covenant, announced in the Budget, in a statement.
Under the covenant, data centers that comply with measures to invest in local communities, create local jobs and protect local water supplies will receive the grid connections they need. Where necessary, they will be allowed to build onsite generation while they wait.
The West Newton project
Reabold's proposed integrated gas to compute project would use gas produced directly from the West Newton field to fuel onsite power generation for a co-located data center. The project would not draw gas from the UK gas grid. Reabold says gas supplied directly from West Newton could cost substantially less than gas bought from the grid, which would improve the economics of the data center project.
As announced on 9 September 2026, a feasibility study is underway to evaluate co-locating power generation and data center assets at West Newton.
Management comment
Stephen Williams, Co-CEO of Reabold, called the Government update "a significant endorsement" of the rationale behind the project. He said access to reliable, competitively priced power matters as demand for digital infrastructure accelerates.
Williams said Reabold believes its direct supply model at West Newton is unique in the UK. He said the model could support domestic computing capacity without adding to demand on an already constrained gas supply system. He added that the company expects to share the feasibility study results in the near future.
