This Practice Note provides an overview of the key legal, regulatory, commercial and practical issues arising in the development, financing, construction, operation, and eventual expansion or the sale of a data centre. It is aimed at lawyers and other professional advisors who have limited or no prior experience of data centre projects, or who need to understand how the relevant workstreams fit together. It may also be useful for lawyers involved in acquisitions, disposals, investment, refinancing or due diligence of operational data centre assets or development sitesIn this Practice Note it is assumed that the data centre project:•relies on low-carbon electricity supply (and, therefore, excludes the supply of electricity generated from natural gas without carbon capture technology)•is a standalone project, as opposed to a ‘hybrid’ project being simultaneously developed alongside co-located electricity generation or energy storage assets ◦may be financed through a variety of funding structures, including sponsor balance sheet funding, institutional investment, corporate debt facilities or, where appropriate,