Power and energy
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ZincFive plans public listing
ZincFive plans to go public through a Spark I business combination, bringing nickel-zinc battery systems into the AI data centre capital markets story.
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Panasonic targets data centre batteries
Panasonic plans battery cell production for data centre applications in Kansas, signalling deeper industrial capacity behind AI-era critical power systems.
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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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AMD commits £2bn to UK AI compute
AMD plans to invest up to £2bn in the UK, supporting AI research, supercomputing, photonic networking, and sovereign compute infrastructure.
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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 backs AI hardware pipeline
The UK’s £1.1bn AI Hardware Plan links chips, procurement, skills, and compute infrastructure into one industrial strategy.
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Global Switch signs second Drax PPA
Global Switch has signed a second long-term Drax power deal, adding solar-backed supply as UK data centre operators tighten energy procurement.
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EU targets faster data centre deployment
The European Commission’s Cloud and AI Development Act places data centre deployment inside Europe’s sovereignty, permitting, and energy-capacity agenda.
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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.
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Viridor and Rivington plan EfW data centres
Viridor and Rivington Energy plan up to 200MW of UK data centre capacity powered directly by energy-from-waste facilities.