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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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2. 6d
   Report claims UK AI jobs surge, with governance a growth function

   A TechRadar Pro opinion piece cites PwC's AI Jobs Barometer as showing UK specialist AI job postings up 61% since last year, adding about 68,000 roles and bringing AI hiring back to roughly 2022 levels. It also cites Coursera research finding 88% of leaders say planned AI investments will fail without more skills spending, and says its own UK research found 85% of organizations already use AI agents in workflows, with 65% of IT leaders expecting headcount to rise over three years versus 14% expecting a fall. The author argues AI governance has shifted from a brake on innovation to a growth function, though much of the data comes from vendor and self-reported surveys.

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