{"id":933735,"date":"2026-10-19T12:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T12:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/933735\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T12:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T12:30:10","slug":"why-nscales-empty-uk-lot-in-loughton-near-london-goes-to-the-heart-of-data-centre-jitters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/933735\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Nscale\u2019s empty UK lot in Loughton, near London, goes to the heart of data centre jitters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated Oct 19, 2026 \u2013 5.28pm, first published at 12.00pm<\/p>\n<p>On London\u2019s eastern fringe in Essex, data centre operator Nscale plans to build its \u00a32 billion ($3.8 billion) flagship UK facility across the road from where the Bank of England produces bank notes.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a symbolic site. The heady rush for artificial intelligence had created a sense that data centres were a licence to print money for the likes of its owner, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/link\/follow-20180101-p5ob7v\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Payne<\/a>, a former Hunter Valley coal miner.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated Oct 19, 2026 \u2013 5.28pm, first published at 12.00pm On London\u2019s eastern fringe in Essex, data centre&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":933736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-933735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}