{"id":470322,"date":"2026-03-11T21:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T21:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/470322\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T21:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T21:25:07","slug":"plans-for-major-ai-data-centre-in-north-lincolnshire-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/470322\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans for major AI data centre in North Lincolnshire approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to plans, the energy centre would comprise up to 15 individual data centre buildings and would produce up to 49.9MW of electricity a year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Next to it would be a greenhouse complex, using waste heat from the cooling of the data centre buildings to grow agricultural produce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The site would cover up to 435 acres (176 hectares) of agricultural field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council said the project would produce up to 1GW (1,000MW) of computing capacity, placing it among the largest AI data centre campuses proposed in the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The development would also create thousands of construction roles over the course of a decade as the site is built out, the authority added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Waltham said: &#8220;This is a once-in-a-generation investment opportunity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;North Lincolnshire remains a place where major industries choose to invest, grow and create jobs.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to plans, the energy centre would comprise up to 15 individual data centre buildings and would produce&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470323,"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-470322","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\/470322","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=470322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}