{"id":416350,"date":"2026-02-09T15:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T15:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/416350\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T15:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T15:26:07","slug":"new-milton-keynes-data-hall-will-boost-uks-ai-power-says-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/416350\/","title":{"rendered":"New Milton Keynes data hall will boost UK&#8217;s AI power, says firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The enhanced centre could also be used by companies in financial services, healthcare and gaming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In January, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/ai-opportunities-action-plan-one-year-on\/ai-opportunities-action-plan-one-year-on\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">government published its AI Opportunities Action Plan, external<\/a>, which outlined how it aims to accelerate the building of data centres.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It wants to boost the UK&#8217;s AI capabilities and has set up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/sovereign-ai-unit\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Sovereign AI Unit, external<\/a>, investing \u00a3500m in it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pulsant, which has data centres across the UK, hopes its upgraded Milton Keynes site, which is within the Oxford\u2011Cambridge technology corridor, can offer fast connections to major hubs in London and Slough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">CEO Rob Coupland said UK digital infrastructure had &#8220;unprecedented demand&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The \u00a310m expansion of our Milton Keynes data centre is another big investment in our digital platform to meet hunger for high density compute power,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The enhanced centre could also be used by companies in financial services, healthcare and gaming. In January, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-416350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}