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- 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."
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