Power and energy
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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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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.