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This week in UK data centres: A 500MW headline is a pipeline, not revenue. Compare the Cloud’s guide for local suppliers starts from a definition
Land becomes data centre land because of power, not acreage. Bowmont’s analysis of the powered land market puts it plainly: “The value is rarely in the land. It is in the power.” The price gap shows why. Reuters reported Savills figures of about £4.5m to £6m per acre for London
Capacity under construction in the UK is being sold before it exists. Of the c.66MW of UK capacity scheduled to complete between Q2 and Q4 2026, 96% is already pre-sold, with under 3MW left to transact, and just over half of the 37MW scheduled for 2027 has already been taken
This week in UK data centres: A 500MW headline is a pipeline, not revenue. Compare the Cloud’s guide for local suppliers starts from a definition that gets lost in most announcements. Megawatts measure power capacity, not annual electricity use, computing performance, bandwidth or contract value, so a 500MW figure could
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 strategy for a significant and growing proportion of the UK data centre market. The shift is structural: grid connection timelines in high-demand areas now extend
Power strategy has become the single most consequential decision a UK data centre operator or developer makes. The Burges Salmon 2026 industry report — drawing on contributions from CoreWeave, NTT, Savills, and Future Growth Capital — was explicit: power availability is now the central investment risk, the primary determinant of
This week in UK data centres: Great British Grid: announced at Labour Party Conference, prompted by a pipeline proposing gas bridges of a decade or more. Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced Great British Grid (GBG) at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool on 29 September 2026. GBG is a new
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