November 03, 2026 United Kingdom
Drax Group will develop up to 1GW of data center capacity at its North Yorkshire power station with Brookfield and Radiant. The deal was announced on Nov. 3. Brookfield estimates investment in the site could exceed £20 billion ($26.8 billion), including £2.5 billion for the first phase. Phase one...
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October 30, 2026 Glasgow
Allied Vehicles is exploring a data center on 11 acres of north Glasgow land, The Glasgow Bell reports. The Glasgow-based automotive company and Glasgow City Council are in talks over the brownfield site along Carlisle Street, opposite Cowlairs Park, in the Cowlairs area. Documents sent to the...
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October 29, 2026 London Docklands
Telehouse and its parent KDDI have completed the purchase of the Inventory Estate in East India Dock, London, for more than £220 million. The sellers are LaSalle Investment Management and Trilogy Real Estate, and the deal values the campus at US$294 million, Telehouse said. Telehouse says 65 MVA...
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October 26, 2026 AiOnX: Cambridgeshire, UK
SWI Compute launched on Oct. 26 to build and operate NVIDIA AI factories, starting with a 30MW site in the UK. The company is part of SWI Group, the Euronext Amsterdam-listed investment group that has secured 3.6GW of power capacity across Europe and the US. SWI Group supplies the land, grid...
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October 26, 2026 United Kingdom
TerraWatt Proposes Up to 1GW Data Center at Former Alton Steel Site TerraWatt has proposed buying Alton Steel's 381-acre Illinois mill site and building a data center campus of up to 1GW there, to be built in 200MW blocks up to a 1GW total, with each block carrying an estimated $2.64 billion...
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October 22, 2026 Era4: Newport, South Wales
Era4 has released details of The Mill, an AI campus on a former steelworks in Newport, South Wales, designed to reach 1GW of power at full build-out. The campus has room for the equivalent of up to 400,000 Nvidia VR200 GPUs, and the first phase is due online in 2027. Data Center Dynamics reported...
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October 20, 2026 United Kingdom
Evolution Power Limited has opened a community consultation on Longmarsh Green Energy, a proposal pairing a data center campus that would draw up to 1GW with a 1.3GW solar farm and battery storage across about 4,695 acres of farmland near King's Lynn in west Norfolk. The developer says the scheme...
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October 19, 2026 United Kingdom
Microsoft has ended its agreement to anchor Nscale's Loughton AI campus in Essex, the 50MW facility that UK ministers promoted as the country's largest sovereign AI data center when it was announced in 2025. The withdrawal, first reported by The Telegraph on Oct. 18, leaves the £2bn project...
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October 05, 2026 United Kingdom
An industrial and data center campus has been proposed at the former Fawley Power Station site near Southampton, UK. Developer Fawley Waterside Limited plans to transform the site into a mixed-use industrial and commercial campus, with potential data center developments. The project would provide...
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October 03, 2026 Scotland
CX Tech Ltd has lodged a planning application for a 1 GW data center and technology campus at the former Chapelcross nuclear power station near Annan, in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The company values the eight-building CX Technology Campus at £16.5 billion ($21.8 billion). The application,...
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October 02, 2026 United Kingdom
Cloud provider Civo plans to deploy 40 Edge data centers across the UK, starting with an 8MW facility in Hertfordshire. The sites will support sovereign AI compute, including Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 systems. The Hertfordshire facility is being fitted out with 8MW of capacity and can scale to...
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September 17, 2026 Scotland
Scotland’s parliament is set to vote on a proposed moratorium on new hyperscale data centers above 50MW. The Scottish Green Party wants large projects paused until a national data center strategy and clear planning rules are established. It says 24 proposed projects could consume 1.5 times...
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September 10, 2026 United Kingdom
Wycombe Park Ltd’s plans to convert a former film studio site into a data center near High Wycombe, UK, have been recommended for approval by Buckinghamshire Council’s Strategic Sites Committee. The site, south of Wycombe Air Park, was originally planned as an eight-phase film studio development...
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August 21, 2026 United Kingdom
UK property firm Harworth Group is close to selling another powered land site to a major data center provider. The company has signed an exclusivity agreement with an unnamed provider for a site with an accepted power connection and strong planning prospects. Harworth’s data center landbank now...
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August 20, 2026 United Kingdom
US fuel cell developer Bloom Energy has launched Power Connect, a new deployment platform designed to cut on-site power installation times by more than 40 percent. The system shifts most installation work to the factory, arriving pre-connected, pre-wired, and tested to simplify on-site deployment...
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August 18, 2026 United Kingdom
Another data center project has been proposed in northeast England. TBC Partners has applied to Northumberland County Council to develop a data center campus on a 12-hectare site off Factory Road in Cambois, near the A189 and River Wansbeck. While few details have been released, TBC Partners...
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August 14, 2026 United Kingdom
A data center of up to 50,000 square meters has been approved for construction at the Haslemere Heathrow Estate in west London. Hounslow Council approved plans for three data center buildings on the site of the existing industrial estate. The facility is expected to require 64MW of power and...
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August 06, 2026 United Kingdom
Swiss private equity firm Partners Group has agreed to acquire a majority stake in UK-based data center power infrastructure provider AVK Power Solutions. Partners Group plans to invest more than $1 billion in equity, backed by debt financing, to accelerate AVK’s expansion and grow its microgrid...
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July 28, 2026 United Kingdom
A 50MW data centre has been proposed on green belt land in Bromley, south-east London. The two-building campus would be developed on a 10-hectare farmland site between Cudham Lane North and Charmwood Lane, just south of the A21 Sevenoaks Road. Consultancy Dare has submitted an Environmental...
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July 25, 2026 United Kingdom
UK data centre firm Volta has appointed Jason Liggins as its new chief executive officer. Liggins takes over following Volta’s separation from Verne and acquisition by Arcus. “My focus will be on leading the growth of the Volta business, strengthening our position in the London market, and...
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