AI Data Centers & Power
AI data center buildouts, power and cooling, and networking for AI clusters.
- Drax Plans £20bn AI Data Centre at Its Yorkshire Power Station, First 100MW by 2028Drax, Brookfield and Radiant plan an AI data centre at Drax Power Station in North Yorkshire that could cost more than £20 billion, starting with up to 100MW from early 2028 and aiming for over 1GW.
- OpenAI Launches Grid Protectors Program, Pledging to Cut Data Center Power at PeaksOpenAI's new Grid Protectors Program commits future US compute campuses to cut electricity use when grids are strained, starting with up to 1,000 MW in Georgia.
- National Grid Buys Teesside Land for UK's Largest Substation to Power a Planned AI Data CentreNational Grid has agreed to buy 73.3 acres at Teesworks for Teesside Node A, a 400kV substation that would supply 1.44GW to a planned AI data centre site from the end of 2029, with talk of growing to 3.2GW.
- Envision Puts 800V DC Power Into Live AI Workloads at Its Ulanqab CampusEnvision says an integrated 800V DC system with solid-state transformers and battery storage now runs live AI workloads at its 3 GW-planned Galaxy campus. Here is how it works, why Nvidia's 2027 roadmap matters, and what is still undisclosed.
- How Much Electricity Do AI Data Centres Use? The Official Numbers ExplainedData centres used about 415 TWh in 2024, around 1.5% of global electricity, and the IEA expects that to more than double by 2030. Here is where the power goes, why AI changes the picture and how to read the next big projection.