Power and energy
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Heathrow Estate data centre clears Hounslow planning vote
Hounslow councillors have backed redevelopment of Heathrow Estate for up to 50,000 sq m of data centre space, supported by a proposed 80MVA electricity connection and a required water-minimisation strategy.
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Amazon’s Ridgeway backup plant enters permit process
Amazon Data Services UK is seeking an environmental permit for emergency backup generation rated at 50MW thermal input or more at its Ridgeway data centre in Iver.
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Slough resilience plant moves into environmental permitting
Iron Mountain has applied for a bespoke environmental permit covering combustion equipment with aggregate rated thermal input of at least 50MW at its Dundee Road data centre site in Slough.
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South Wales AI zone lands its first capacity deal
Nebius will deploy high-density Nvidia infrastructure at Vantage’s Newport campus, giving the South Wales AI Growth Zone its first announced commercial capacity commitment.
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Florence brownfield scheme ties compute to solar, hydrogen and heat
Comtel and H2-Era plan to place a data centre inside a Tuscan brownfield redevelopment combining solar generation, hydrogen production, vertical farming, and recovery of server heat.
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Kingspan reaches deeper into critical power with €900m BMC deal
Kingspan has agreed to acquire Irish electrical manufacturer BMC for up to €900m, adding low-voltage switchgear and power distribution to its growing data centre cooling and containment business.
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Nebius pushes AI capacity north with Estonia and Finland builds
Nebius has committed to 22MW at Greenergy in Estonia and outlined another Mäntsälä facility of up to 70MW, extending its rapidly growing Northern European AI infrastructure footprint.
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RWE turns grid-rich German sites towards data centres
RWE is close to two German data centre agreements as the utility assesses ten electrically connected sites for digital infrastructure, turning existing grid access and industrial land into development assets.
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Esbjerg puts flexible power at the heart of DDC1
Construction has started on an 11.5MW Esbjerg data centre designed to vary electricity demand, use energy storage, recirculate cooling water, and ultimately send surplus heat into the local district heating network.
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UPS investment forecast to reach $30.7bn
Global data-centre UPS investment could reach $30.74bn by 2031 as AI density, hyperscale development, and grid constraints raise the value of electrical resilience.