{"id":73604,"date":"2026-08-17T07:20:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T07:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/73604\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T07:20:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T07:20:27","slug":"uniper-targets-data-centre-sales-in-uk-germany-on-ai-demand-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/73604\/","title":{"rendered":"Uniper targets data centre sales in UK, Germany on AI demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/B92F32079E2AAC59CCE0BD49959DC1FE1C1ECB12AE9F4D3779D16FCE16EBB187\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefit_w960;quality_80;format_webp\/https:%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fthe_edge_961%2Ff7939ff130589f7c914f3c3d58b40561.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" alt=\"\" height=\"640\" width=\"960\" class=\"yf-j98iil loader\"\/><\/a>          <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Uniper SE has identified about 10 sites across Europe that could be sold or leased for data-centre development, as the German utility looks to capitalise on surging demand for AI infrastructure.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">(Aug 11): Uniper SE has identified about 10 sites across Europe that could be sold or leased for data-centre development, as the German utility looks to capitalise on surging demand for AI infrastructure.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">The portfolio includes four sites in the UK, three in Germany, two in Sweden and one in the Netherlands, according to a presentation published Tuesday. Three of the projects are already at an advanced stage with investment decisions possible this year, the company said.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Uniper is seeking to boost its appeal to investors as Germany prepares to sell down its stake following the multibillion-euro bailout during the energy crisis in 2022. Like other European utilities, the company is looking to cash in on the data-center boom by selling or leasing former fossil-fuel power plants that offer large industrial sites and existing grid connections while helping meet the sector&#8217;s growing electricity demand.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Germany&#8217;s RWE AG last year sold a former coal plant in the UK to Amazon.com Inc. The utility has also identified more than 10 sites across Europe that could be developed and sold.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Separately, Uniper said gas-storage facilities were refilled at a faster pace during the second quarter ahead of winter, an improvement from the low levels seen in the first three months of the year.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Still, Germany, home to Europe&#8217;s largest gas-storage capacity, continues to lag behind the rest of the region. Its storage sites were just over 48% full, compared with a European average of 59%.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Uploaded by Liza Shireen Koshy  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">See Also:  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Uniper SE has identified about 10 sites across Europe that could be sold or leased for data-centre development,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21075],"tags":[39420,54550,5,54549,4991],"class_list":["post-73604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uniper","tag-data-centre","tag-electricity-demand","tag-germany","tag-surging-demand","tag-uniper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}