A £3.9B green AI data centre is planned for Ravenscraig, promising jobs, investment, and a 0.4% boost to Scotland’s GDP.

Equinix, a big data centre multinational, says that in the UK, more than 95% of its energy is already provided by wind and solar, and that it is on track to get to 100% by 2030.

By comparison, data centres consumed 415 TWh in 2024, roughly 1.5% of the world’s total electricity consumption (see ‘Global electricity growth’). On supporting science journalism ...

In May 2025, OpenAI announced its plans to develop a new data centre in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This planned 5GW data centre campus may become one of the largest in the world ...

Rack Centre has commissioned a new Load Data Centre, designed to deliver uninterrupted, energy-efficient, world-class services and scalable solutions for enterprises, cloud providers, and ...

W HERE IS THE best place to build a data centre? Not on Earth at all, but in orbit, claims Philip Johnston, chief executive of Starcloud. The cost of launching things into space is falling fast ...