UK’s biggest AI data centre plan approved

Plans to build the UK’s largest data centres near Scunthorpe in North Lincolnshire have gained outline approval.
The massive AI data centre campus would deliver over 1.5m square metres of hyperscale floorspace across a campus of 15 data halls and is expected to cost around £7.5bn to build.
This makes one the most ambitious digital infrastructure projects ever targeting 1,000MW of IT load to serve the accelerating needs of artificial intelligence and cloud computing.
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