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1. 6d
   Report: UK data centre market growth lags Europe despite soaring demand

   Consultancy Kearney says the UK is Europe's second-largest data centre market, yet its demand is expected to grow just 17.6% annually to 2030 — ahead of only Germany (16.2%) and well below Ireland (36%), Finland (37.6%) and Norway (36.8%). The firm blames not weak demand but the difficulty of building cheaply and quickly, citing energy availability, land costs and grid connection speeds: typical UK and Western European sites cost around €2.25 million per MW, versus as little as €600,000 per MW in the Nordics. "What has changed is that power and land are scarce enough that the next wave of capacity must match the workloads that genuinely need to be close to users, customers, and national jurisdictions," said Kearney's European Data Center Lead Christoph Neunkirchen, adding that "everything else will go where it is easier to build."

   TechRadar · 🔥 0
2. Oct 8
   Finland data center investment tops €67 billion on AI boom

   Planned and under-construction data center projects in Finland now represent more than €67 billion (about $75 billion) in total investment, as an AI-driven building boom accelerates. The wave follows Alphabet's Google announcing last month its largest-ever European investment in the country, with Alibaba Group and Applied Digital among those unveiling new Finnish data center plans in recent weeks. The report attributes the interest to Finland's cool climate, abundant renewable power and available grid capacity.

   Bloomberg Technology · 🔥 0

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