Drax wants to feed Britain's AI habit with £20B datacenter at biomass power station

Britain's AI infrastructure boom could soon have an unlikely new home: Drax Power Station, where the operator of the country's largest biomass power plant has unveiled plans for a £20 billion datacenter development capable of consuming more than a gigawatt of power.Drax announced on Tuesday that it has teamed up with investment giant Brookfield and its UK-based AI infrastructure business Radiant to build the facility at its North Yorkshire site. The money would come through a joint venture between Brookfield and Qatar's Qai, although the £20 billion headline figure is more ambition than actual money on the table at this stage.The companies plan to start relatively small, at least by the standards of the AI industry's apparently...

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