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 21, 2025 Scotland
Scotland's East Lothian Council has selected UK investment firm Sustainable Development Capital LLP (SDCL) as its preferred supplier for a potential hyperscale data center at a former coal storage site in Cockenzie, East Lothian.“While this process is still at an initial stage, it marks an...
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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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October 04, 2025 United Kingdom
UK-based renewable energy firm Innova has submitted ten data center projects as part of the National Energy System Operator’s (NESO) "Gate 2 to Whole Queue process" reform of the UK's grid connections queue. The projects have a combined capacity of 4.4GW. Of the projects, five are hybrid schemes...
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September 22, 2025 United Kingdom
AI Pathfinder, a new data center developer has revealed plans to invest up to £18.4 billion ($24.86bn) in UK digital infrastructure, with new facilities in England and Scotland. It has also committed to investing up to £15bn ($20.2bn) in a data center at the i3 industrial park in Ayrshire,...
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September 15, 2025 United Kingdom
Vantage Raises $1.6bn for APAC Expansion Vantage Data Centers has raised $1.6 billion to expand its presence in the Asia-Pacific region, starting with the acquisition of Yondr Group’s data center campus in Johor, Malaysia.EcoDataCenter Raises $703m in Debt Financing EcoDataCenter has secured €600...
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September 15, 2025 United Kingdom
Power technology firm ABB is investing $110 million in manufacturing over the next three months to support growth in industries such as data centers. This investment is to “expand R&D and manufacturing of its advanced electrification solutions,” as customers “focus on improving energy...
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September 12, 2025 United Kingdom
The UK government's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has awarded Google Cloud a £400 million ($542.12m) contract. Google is to deliver a UK sovereign cloud capability to give the MoD a secure cloud platform. The offering will be built on Google Distributed Cloud Air-Gapped.“Google Cloud is dedicated to...
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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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