The variety of planning functions for information centres rose as a lot as 40% within the UK in 2024 as cloud firms raced to meet up with ever-growing demand for compute in AI, UKTN can reveal.
An evaluation by UKTN tracked almost 200 planning functions for information centres throughout greater than 250 native authorities in England and Wales between 2020 and 2024. The evaluation recognized at the very least 38 separate functions for the development of knowledge centres in 2024, an increase of 40.7% in comparison with the earlier yr.
That determine stays down on the 50 functions recognized in 2020, a report yr, however seemingly quantities to considerably extra compute energy than the functions made throughout that yr, owing to the elevated dimension, footprint and potential vitality consumption featured within the designs of newer plans….
