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Data centre planning applications jumped 40% in 2024 amid surge in AI

Published by UK Tech News · 14 January 2025 · 1 min read

The number of planning applications for data centres rose as much as 40% in the UK in 2024 as cloud companies raced to catch up with ever-growing demand for compute in AI, UKTN can reveal.

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