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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July 17, 2026 United Kingdom
UK oil and gas company Orcadian has proposed an offshore data center in the North Sea powered by a natural gas plant using gas from its Earlham and Orwell fields. The company plans to generate power offshore, capture the resulting CO₂ emissions, and store them in the Earlham reservoir. Orcadian...
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July 15, 2026 Northern Ireland
Data centers in Ireland accounted for 23 percent of the country’s total metered electricity use in 2025. According to the Central Statistics Office, facilities consumed 7,663GWh during the year, a 10 percent increase from 6,973GWh in 2024. Data centers in Ireland now consume nearly as much...
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July 14, 2026 United Kingdom
The former Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) data center in Kegworth, Leicestershire, has been demolished to make way for a new industrial warehouse development. Hobden Estates received approval to demolish the site in 2024 and has since submitted plans for a Class E commercial building with office...
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July 03, 2026 United Kingdom
UK renewable energy developer Clearstone has proposed a 300MW data center campus in Kent. Planned for a 145-acre site near Dartford, the Ebbsfleet AI Data Centre Campus would comprise up to 180,000 sqm (1.9 million sq ft) of data center space across four buildings. The project has been designated...
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June 29, 2026 United Kingdom
Xlinks, the company behind the proposed Morocco–UK power cable, has unveiled plans for a 1.5GW AI data center campus in Devon. The project, announced this week, includes two planning applications submitted to Torridge District Council: the 1.5GW Valeon AI data center campus and a 1.8GW battery...
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June 29, 2026 United Kingdom
A data center could be developed in Norfolk, UK. First reported by the Norwich Evening News, Norwich Apex Ltd plans a two-story data center, substation, and three-story office building on a 13-hectare site off Ipswich Road in Norwich. The company secured planning permission for the Apex Business...
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June 27, 2026 United Kingdom
Denham Parish Council has objected to a proposed 60,000 sqm data center development in Buckinghamshire, UK. Submitted by Mulberry Commercial Developments II on June 1, 2026, the plan calls for two data center buildings on Green Belt land on either side of Denham Court Drive near the village of...
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June 18, 2026 United Kingdom
UK government ministers will decide whether to approve plans for a data center campus at a former quarry in Bedfordshire after the project was designated a development of national significance. Real estate firm Questpit is proposing the Quest Park Data Center campus on a 143-acre site at Ampthill...
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June 17, 2026 London
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has pledged "coordinated action" to address the challenges posed by rising data center demand across the capital, particularly growing pressure on power infrastructure. A report commissioned by the Greater London Authority and prepared by Buro Happold found that while...
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June 02, 2026 United Kingdom
UK data center developer Era4 is moving forward with plans to establish a facility at a landfill site in Canterbury. The company, formerly known as Carbon3.ai, has submitted an application to Kent County Council for the development of a data center at the Shelford Farm Estate on Broad Oak Road....
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May 21, 2026 United Kingdom
Sembcorp is planning a 280MW data center at Wilton International in Teesside, UK, in partnership with Digital Reef. The project would include three buildings on a 154,553 sqm site acquired for £3.5 million ($4.7m) in July 2025. Sembcorp has filed plans for a 280MW air-cooled data center at Wilton...
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