September 10, 2025 KAO Data
Kao Data investor Legal and General (L&G) has closed a €600 million ($706m) fund that will invest in digital infrastructure projects in Europe and the UK. This is “a key milestone in L&G’s asset management strategy to expand its private markets proposition,” the company said. A second...
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September 02, 2025 United Kingdom
UK data center developer Virtus has signed a corporate Power Purchase Agreement (cPPA) for 31MW of wind power from the Lynn and Inner Dowsing (LID) windfarms, a pair of offshore wind farms in the North Sea. Virtus will offtake 16 percent of the total generation from LID, with a commencement date...
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August 29, 2025 United Kingdom
Every day, humans generate more data than they did the previous day. In 2010, the planet generated approximately two zettabytes of digital information, a figure that increased to 64 zettabytes over the next decade. For comparison, one zettabyte is a trillion gigabytes, so large that if you tried...
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July 28, 2025 United Kingdom
TalkTalk Group has secured £100 million ($134m) in new funding from an existing shareholder. This includes approximately £50m ($67m) of non-core asset sales recently announced and amendments to existing debt facilities, allowing interest to be capitalized, increasing funding capacity by more than...
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July 05, 2025 United Kingdom
UK energy regulator Ofgem has provisionally approved a £24 billion ($32.7bn) investment package into the country’s gas and electricity transmission system.The funding will back the construction of 80 electricity transmission projects aimed at connecting more than 120GW of clean energy capacity by...
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July 04, 2025 KAO Data
The CEO of UK data center company Kao Data, Doug Loewe, has stepped down. The company claimed that Loewe had "decided to dedicate more of his time" to philanthropic work, a cause with which he has a long history. Loewe was CEO for a year and a half.“On behalf of the Board and the entire team at...
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July 02, 2025 United Kingdom
UK operator Datum Datacentres this week officially launched MCR2, marking the completion of the almost two-year construction project. The facility, located in Wythenshawe, provides capacity for up to 1,200 racks, each offering densities up to 30kW. Matt Edgley, COO at Datum Datacentres, said: “We...
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June 26, 2025 Manchester
Deep Green, a company that deploys small data centers close to swimming pools, is planning to deploy 400kW of compute hardware within a 150 sqm (1,614 sq ft) space at the Move Urmston Leisure center in Urmston, southwest of Manchester. It will be the company’s first deployment in the UK’s...
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June 21, 2025 Scotland
Battery storage firm Apatura has filed an application to develop a data center outside Cumnock, southwest Scotland. The company is requesting an Environmental Impact Assessment Screening Opinion ahead of full planning permission as it looks to develop on 24.5 hectares of land south of Creoch Farm...
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June 21, 2025 United Kingdom
Insurance broker and risk advisor Marsh this week announced the launch of Nimbus, a new insurance facility providing clients cover for the construction of large-scale data centers across the UK and Europe.Nimbus provides up to €1 billion ($1.15bn) in construction all-risks coverage and up to €350...
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June 10, 2025 United Kingdom
The UK’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has published a list of district heating networks in development across the UK that have applied for funding and support from three of its programs.A project pipeline document published by DESNZ states: “The opportunities present a wide...
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June 10, 2025 United Kingdom
Nebius will entered the UK with a deployment of Nvidia Blackwell Ultra GPUs which will include thousands of the Nvidia Blackwell Ultra GPUs - the B300s - and is expected to be operational in Q4 of this year.Arkady Volozh, founder and CEO of Nebius, said: “We’re pleased to be providing compute...
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May 28, 2025 United Kingdom
A local council in Essex, UK, has voiced opposition to a proposed data center campus from Google on a 52-acre site at North Weald Airfield, east of London, from the Epping Forest District Council.The company aims to develop two data center buildings and separate offices, delivering up to 77,150...
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January 29, 2025 United Kingdom
British chip company Arm is expanding its presence in Cambridge and has signed a lease to take over new office and laboratory space at the developer’s Peterhouse Technology Park. Arm already occupies all six buildings at Peterhouse Technology Park, totaling 330,000 sq ft (30,658 sqm).The Optic is...
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January 28, 2025 United Kingdom
A former tech contractor at the British Museum reportedly shut down some of its IT systems, causing the museum to close some galleries and exhibitions. He allegedly gained access to an unauthorized area of the British Museum last week and turned off some of its IT systems after being dismissed by...
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January 27, 2025 United Kingdom
UK telco BT issued a rallying cry last week urging the UK's Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) providers to move away from the outdated analog copper landline network by the end of this year. The telco warned that the country's switch from its historic Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)...
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January 24, 2025 United Kingdom
Plans for a 320MW UK data center, which developers claim will be the largest of its kind in Europe, has been given the go-ahead. The DC01UK campus in Hertfordshire will be built on 85 acres of land adjacent to the M25 motorway, to the east of the South Mimms Services.The scheme was given the...
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January 08, 2025 United Kingdom
Chipmaker GlobalFoundries (GF) and UK-based quantum computing company Quantum Motion have partnered to develop quantum processors based on a scalable silicon platform. The two companies said GF had manufactured a silicon chip designed by Quantum Motion that is “at least 100 times faster than the...
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January 08, 2025 United Kingdom
UK retailer Asda temporarily opted not to go ahead with its previously planned IT systems shift. The company had intended to introduce new systems at its smaller stores and a few larger stores over the December 7-9 period as part of the separation of its technology from Walmart.Asda is drawing to...
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January 08, 2025 United Kingdom
UK private real estate investor Castleforge has acquired the Redhill Data Centre Campus in Redhill, south of London. Tthe 7.8-acre campus totals more than 160,000 sq ft (14,865 sqm) across three buildings and offers 26MW in total. The site reportedly has a development value of £100 million...
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