Power and energy
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Charlton data centre clashes with housing plans
Charlton’s proposed data centre intensifies London’s housing and infrastructure conflict.
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Hetzner schedules FSN1 voltage upgrade
Hetzner will upgrade power equipment serving its FSN1 campus this week.
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JERA plans 400MW Chiba AI campus
JERA, Dell and UK-based RHAELM plan a 400MW AI infrastructure project beside a Japanese power station, directly coupling compute development with generation.
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OmniOn lifts converter power to 2.6kW
OmniOn Power has expanded its Osprey bus-converter range to 2.6kW while retaining the quarter-brick footprint used by its previous generation.
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Socomec launches modular DELPHYS XL+
Socomec has launched a 500kW-to-1.25MW modular UPS designed to reduce the space burden of prefabricated data centre power infrastructure.
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Finland redraws grid queue for data centres
Finland is proposing new electricity connection priorities that could change how large data centre projects compete for scarce grid capacity.
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Three more data centres proposed near Slough
Plans have been lodged for three data centre buildings on green-belt land at Poyle, adding another large development proposal to the heavily constrained Slough and Heathrow infrastructure cluster.
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Amazon signs 36MW Shetland wind PPA
Amazon has signed a power purchase agreement with Statkraft for 36MW from the planned Mossy Hill wind farm in Shetland, extending its UK renewable-power contracting portfolio.
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Great British Grid targets faster power connections
The UK government has created Great British Grid to invest in electricity networks and accelerate delivery as connection delays increasingly constrain industry, generation, and large electricity users.
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QPT targets 800V AI racks with bus converter
Cambridge power-electronics company QPT has unveiled an intermediate bus converter designed to take 800V DC rack power to 6V in one stage, targeting higher power density in next-generation AI systems.