Markets and policy
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Washington puts AI power bills on notice
The US is pressing data centre and AI companies to shield electricity customers from infrastructure costs.
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Cloud giants enter the UK resilience net
Microsoft, Google, AWS, and Oracle have been designated Critical Third Parties for the UK financial sector.
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UK data centres get a grid playbook
United Infrastructure will lead work on standardised electricity connection archetypes for UK data centre projects.
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Essex AI campus runs into the grid
Nscale’s Loughton AI campus is reportedly seeking alternative power because its grid connection will not arrive in time.
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Fastmail plants its EU copy in Amsterdam
Fastmail will let European customers keep their primary email data copy in the EU from August.
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Flix gets a €1bn AI second life
Submer will turn a former chemicals site in Catalonia into a liquid-cooled AI data centre campus.
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Bedford’s 1GW campus turns on gas bridge
QuestPit’s proposed Bedfordshire data centre is back in the local news cycle, with power strategy still defining the scheme.
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Baker Hughes lines up private data centre power
Baker Hughes and Kodiak have agreed a gas turbine framework for behind-the-meter power supporting US data centre growth.
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EQT buys into the power-first AI campus
EQT is acquiring Copia Power, a US platform linking generation, transmission, and data centre load into large AI infrastructure campuses.
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Scaleway folds heat-reuse HPC into its cloud
Scaleway has acquired Qarnot, adding dedicated HPC and waste-heat-recovery capability to its European cloud and AI platform.