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Drax wants to feed Britain's AI habit with £20B datacenter at biomass power station
But first it needs planning permission, government approval and, rather importantly, a customer Britain's AI infrastructure boom could soon have an unlikely new home: Drax Power Station, where the operator of the country's largest biomass…
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Drax, the operator of the United Kingdom’s largest biomass power plant, has unveiled a plan to build a £20 billion datacenter at its Drax Power Station. The proposed facility would draw more than a gigawatt of electricity, targeting the country’s rapidly expanding AI infrastructure.
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