April 30, 2026 United Kingdom
UK-based power solutions provider AVK has launched a modular power system aimed at the hyperscale and AI data center market. The AVK PowerPod is a fully integrated, pre-engineered solution delivered as a transportable modular unit. It combines an engine for power generation with switchgear, UPS,...
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April 21, 2026 United Kingdom
A modular data center could be developed on the site of a steelworks in South Wales, UK, after council planners approved the scheme. Era4 plans to build the facility on part of the Liberty Steel plant in Newport, South Wales. Newport City Council granted change-of-use permission for the site at a...
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April 03, 2026 United Kingdom
The UK’s Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) is seeking a new data center provider. In a tender, the agency is looking for a partner to deliver and maintain a facility supporting its Long Range Identification and Tracking (LRIT) system.LRIT is a global satellite-based system that requires ships...
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March 26, 2026 United Kingdom
US power firm Arbor Energy partners with GridMarket to supply up to 5GW to data centers starting in 2029. The agreement will serve data center operators and other industrial clients, offering faster deployment than conventional power solutions.Arbor is using a modular approach with its 25MW...
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March 23, 2026 United Kingdom
The UK Government, rather than local planning authorities, will determine whether a proposed 300MW data center in Buckinghamshire receives planning permission. While planning decisions in the UK are typically made by local councils, Secretary for Housing, Communities and Local Government Steve...
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March 14, 2026 United Kingdom
A proposed 1GW data center campus at a former RAF airbase in North Lincolnshire, UK, has received planning approval. North Lincolnshire Council’s planning committee approved the Elsham Tech Park project during a meeting on Wednesday.The data center campus would be built on land south and east of...
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March 09, 2026 United Kingdom
AWS Behind Plans for $750M Data Center in Clinton, Mississippi Amazon Web Services (AWS) is reportedly planning a $750 million data center project in Clinton, Mississippi on a 99-acre site formerly the home of Milwaukee Tool, where the existing building redeveloped for the data center.Karatzis...
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February 21, 2026 United Kingdom
The UK’s energy regulator Ofgem has launched a wide-ranging review of electricity demand connection rules, with data center growth a primary driver. Data center projects now account for roughly 50GW of the UK’s energy connection queue. This massive pipeline is under intense government scrutiny...
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February 10, 2026 United Kingdom
The UK's HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has migrated its applications out of legacy data centers located in West London and Swindon. In total, HMCTS migrated 37 applications, a project that began in 2020, and has scrapped some and updated others to be moved to cloud platforms, as per a...
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January 24, 2026 United Kingdom
The UK Government has admitted that it made a “serious logical error” when granting planning permission to a data center in Buckinghamshire, making it likely that the decision will be quashed, reports Bloomberg. The Buckinghamshire Council had already refused this specific data center proposal...
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January 22, 2026 United Kingdom
UK construction firm Mace Construct has been tapped by Pathfinder Clean Energy Limited (PACE) to construct a portfolio of data centers with a combined capacity of 168MW. The two companies signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding under which Mace will support the development of three data...
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January 14, 2026 United Kingdom
A data center could be built as part of a housing development on a former colliery site in Nottinghamshire, UK. Property developer Harworth Group wants to build the data center on the land that used to house the Rufford Colliery, located near the village of Rainworth.Drawings included as part of...
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December 12, 2025 United Kingdom
UK quantum computing firm Nu Quantum this week closed its oversubscribed Series A funding round led by National Grid Partners, including participation from Gresham House Ventures and Morpheus Ventures.The company claimed it is the largest financing round ever raised by a pure-play quantum...
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December 04, 2025 United Kingdom
Power equipment manufacturer ABB has invested in OctaiPipe, a UK-based AI firm focused on optimizing data center cooling systems. The partnership will see the companies supply data center operators with tools to achieve substantial energy savings, strengthen operational resilience, and meet the...
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November 28, 2025 United Kingdom
The University of Bristol has announced plans to develop a National AI Data Facility to support large-scale data processing efforts. The multi-million-pound data repository will be housed at the National Composites Centre (NCC) at the Bristol and Bath Science Park, next to the UK’s Isambard-AI...
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November 06, 2025 United Kingdom
European cloud operator Nebius this week announced its first deployment of Nvidia Blackwell Ultra AI infrastructure in the UK. The cluster sits in Ark Data Centres’ Longcross Park campus in Surrey. The cluster totals 126 racks across three data center halls. The first phase comprises 4,000 Nvidia...
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November 05, 2025 United Kingdom
Video calling firm Zoom is planning to lease space in a UK data center in the first half of 2026 with plans to target regulated sectors such as healthcare and financial services. The facility will comply with the UK's data residency requirements, enabling UK-only meeting zones and telephony...
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October 25, 2025 United Kingdom
Satline, a colocation and hosting provider targeting the satellite communications sector, has taken space in a UK data center. It is "equipped with two new satellite antennas supporting the 5°W and 28.2°E beams,” according to a statement from the company this week. It continued: “This expansion...
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October 23, 2025 United Kingdom
UK managed services provider Redcentric announced it had agreed the sale of its data center unit, Redcentric Data Centres Limited, to Stellanor Datacenters Group Limited, a UK data center operator launched last month and backed by a fund managed by DWS Group.Michelle Senecal De Fonseca,...
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October 15, 2025 United Kingdom
Apple has expanded its renewable energy portfolio across Europe, adding more than 650MW of new renewable capacity. The projects include several large-scale solar and wind projects across Greece, Italy, Latvia, Poland, and Romania.“By 2030, we want our users to know that all the energy it takes to...
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