Build and facilities
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What counts as a real data centre project?
Announced megawatts rarely prove whether data centre capacity will arrive. UK schemes now face harder tests on land, power, planning, financing, construction, and energisation.
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Lombardy tightens data centre rules
Lombardy has approved a data centre law aimed at steering rapid capacity growth towards brownfield land and clearer authorisation routes.
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AmpTank plans Utajärvi AI data centre
AmpTank is moving from Nordic battery storage into hyperscale compute with a Finnish data centre tied to grid flexibility and nearby renewables.
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Data4 launches 700MW Escaudain campus
Data4 is taking a former northern French industrial site into the AI infrastructure race with a planned €5bn, 700MW data centre campus.
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Delhi fire disrupts Google Cloud traffic
A third-party data centre fire in Delhi disrupted Google Cloud traffic, exposing the operational reach of physical infrastructure incidents.
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KKR launches power-led AI platform
KKR’s Helix platform shows private capital moving deeper into the power bottleneck behind AI data centre development.
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Cambridge launches Zenith AI supercomputer
Cambridge has launched the £36m Zenith AI supercomputer, adding publicly funded research compute capacity to the UK’s sovereign AI infrastructure push.
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Pure DC advances Brent Cross build
Pure DC has appointed Glencar for the next Brent Cross phase, extending a live London campus toward 90MW of total capacity.
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UK confirms data centre NSIP route
The UK government has confirmed that data centres can be directed into the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects regime.
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DriverAI plans 80MW Cluj AI campus
DriverAI says it is advancing an 80MW AI and quantum data centre in Cluj County, with delivery questions still sitting around power, planning, financing, and partners.