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MEGAWATTECONOMICS

AI gets written about as software. It is being built as power stations, substations and concrete. This is the brief on that build-out, and what it costs.

  • Data
  • Power
  • Cloud
  • Chips
  • Policy
  • Funding

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From a recent issue

£2.45BN

Virtus — data centre financing

500MW

Submer — liquid-cooling capacity

$3.4BN

Mubadala unit — into UK AI infra

What lands in your inbox

Every issue opens with one story taken apart — what happened, what it actually means, and what it changes for you. Then six sections of the build-out.

01

Data Centres & Capacity

Who is building, where, and how much of it actually lands.

02

Power, Grid & Cooling

Megawatts, substations, connection queues and water.

03

Cloud & Compute

Regions, quotas, neoclouds and what capacity really costs.

04

Chips & Hardware

Silicon, fabs, interconnect and the supply behind them.

05

Policy, Regulation & Trust

The AI Act, data rules, and what they do to deployment.

06

Funding & Deals

The capital moving into infrastructure, and from whom.

What the analysis reads like

The lead story

“Data centre growth is constrained by energy availability and regulatory compliance, not just capital.”
From the issue on Virtus securing £2.45bn for its UK and European build-out. The money was the headline. The grid connection is the story.

Who writes it

Aziz Ahmed

AI infrastructure & data centre advisor

I advise on AI infrastructure and data centres, and I write this because the coverage kept missing the constraint. Everyone reports the funding round. Far fewer ask whether the site has a grid connection, or when.

Close enough to the ecosystem to understand it. Far enough outside it to see the patterns forming around it.

I write daily on LinkedIn

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