{"id":345099,"date":"2025-08-14T23:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T23:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/345099\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T23:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T23:39:09","slug":"data-centres-to-be-expanded-across-uk-as-concerns-mount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/345099\/","title":{"rendered":"Data centres to be expanded across UK as concerns mount"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some experts have warned it could drive up prices paid by consumers.<\/p>\n

More than half of the new data centres would be in London and neighbouring counties.<\/p>\n

Many are privately funded by US tech giants such as Google and Microsoft and major investment firms.<\/p>\n

A further nine are planned in Wales, one in Scotland, five in Greater Manchester and a handful in other parts of the UK, the data shows.<\/p>\n

While the new data centres are mostly due for completion by 2030, the biggest single one planned would come later – a \u00a310-billion AI data centre in Blyth, near Newcastle<\/a>, for the American private investment and wealth management company Blackstone Group.<\/p>\n

It would involve building 10 giant buildings covering 540,000 square meters – the size of several large shopping centres – on the site of a former Blyth Power Station.<\/p>\n

Works are set to begin in 2031 and last for more than three years.<\/p>\n

Microsoft is planning four new data centres in the UK at a total cost of \u00a3330 million, with an estimated completion between 2027 and 2029 – two in the Leeds area, one near Newport in Wales, and a five-storey site in Acton, north west London.<\/p>\n

And Google is building two data centres, totalling \u00a3450m, spread over 400,000 sq m in north east London in the Lee Valley water system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some experts have warned it could drive up prices paid by consumers. More than half of the new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-345099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115029761340638721","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}