UK data center news

Private-sector data center projects and contract wins in the UK: builds, expansions, M&E and construction packages, financing and acquisitions. Headlines come from trade press and company press releases. Each summary is written by us, and the full story is at the source.

• News9 Nov 2026DatacenterDynamicsSouth East

  UK’s Defra plans £4.8m data center contract renewal with Atos

  Defra plans to renew a data center contract with Atos worth £4.8m
  Atos Euronext Paris: ATO
• News4 Nov 2026Data Centre ReviewYorkshire and the Humber

  Drax partners with Brookfield on £20bn-plus AI data centre plans

  Drax and Brookfield are developing a data centre campus at Drax's North Yorkshire power station. The project is valued at over £20bn.
  Drax LSE: DRX
• News3 Nov 2026Data Centre ReviewNorth East

  National Grid takes major step towards powering Teesside AI data centre

  National Grid is building a substation to support a data centre in Teesside. The substation will power a major AI data centre development at Teesworks.
• News2 Nov 2026DCNNLondon

  KDDI, Telehouse acquire £220m London Docklands site

  KDDI and Telehouse have bought the Inventory Estate in East India Dock, London. The site will support a new high-density, AI-ready data centre.
  KDDI Tokyo: 9433 · Telehouse
• News21 Oct 2026Data Centre ReviewWales

  Cardiff data centre becomes latest to consider gas power while it awaits the grid

  Curtis Hall is considering using gas power at its Cardiff data centre. The 150MW site awaits a grid connection, which may not be available until 2034.
  Curtis Hall
• News20 Oct 2026Data Centre ReviewEast of England

  Microsoft pulls out of Nscale’s Essex AI data centre amid grid delays

  Microsoft has pulled out of a deal for capacity at Nscale's AI data centre in Loughton. The project is for an AI data centre, and Microsoft was to be the client.
  Microsoft · Nscale

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