Intelligence and analysis on grid connectivity, power availability, and DNO constraints across key data centre markets. Covering what’s real in the queue versus what’s speculative.
Behind-the-meter power — generation that connects directly to the consumer without routing through the public grid — has moved from contingency planning to primary development
Power strategy has become the single most consequential decision a UK data centre operator or developer makes. The Burges Salmon 2026 industry report — drawing
Ofgem’s consultation on the Data Centre Commitment Fee closes on 16 September 2026. The proposals, published under the CURATE programme alongside the wider TMO4+ gated
Nscale’s £2bn data centre in Loughton, Essex has planning permission, Nvidia backing, and Microsoft as anchor tenant. The project was announced by the Prime Minister
The UK government’s Artificial Intelligence Growth Zones have attracted significant attention since their announcement. The promise — faster planning, better grid access, lower energy costs
For most of the data centre sector’s development history, substation capacity was a technical detail — something resolved by engineers after the site had been
The UK data centre market has a geography problem. Approximately 75 to 80% of the country’s colocation capacity sits in London and the Thames Valley.
Two numbers get conflated constantly in AI infrastructure conversations: the cost of energy, priced in pence per kilowatt-hour, and the cost of deployed compute capacity,
For most of the past decade, on-site power generation for UK data centres was treated as a contingency — a backup for grid outages, a
The UK grid connection queue has been one of the most significant barriers to data centre development for the past three years. A system that
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