Funded entirely by private investment and backed by the government of Gibraltar, the Pelagos Data Centres Project represents a transformative step for the territory's digital and economic landscape. It will also make an important contribution to meeting Europe's demand for datacentre capacity, positioning Gibraltar as a significant new node in Europe's digital infrastructure that can serve the broader needs of the UK and continental Europe.
The deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner, has been hit with a legal challenge after she overruled a local council to approve a hyperscale datacentre on green belt land by the M25 in Buckinghamshire. Campaigners bringing the action are complaining that no environmental impact assessment was made for the 90MW datacentre, which was approved as part of the Labour government's push to turn the UK into an AI powerhouse