Drax's Ambitious Plan: Transforming Britain's Largest Power Station into a $27B AI Data Center

11/04/2026

Official figures put datacentre electricity use at 4.46TWh in 2024 – 1.8% of the grid and up 41% since 2020, with the load stacking up in Slough and the M4 corridor

11/03/2026

First phase is expected to become operational in early 2028, delivering up to 100 megawatts of computing capacity as developers target eventual capacity exceeding 1 gigawatt

11/03/2026

Drax’s FTSE 250 owner strikes £20bn deal to build infrastructure in what it says is site’s ‘next chapter’Britain’s most polluting power plant could soon power the country’s largest datacentre...

11/03/2026

The years-long wait for access to the grid and new turbines is causing data center builders to turn to an unusual, less-efficient and less environmentally friendly solution: once-discarded jet...