Does the UK really need Gigawatt data centres? | Civo Navigate London 2026
Everyone's racing to build gigawatt AI factories by 2035. What if the faster route is already plugged in? Swarms of agents need far more compute than a chat prompt ever did, and the scaling laws say demand isn't slowing. But in the UK, anything over 15MW can mean waiting until 2032 or later for a grid connection. So the panel makes a different case: smaller sites on existing power and fibre, linked into one national campus, live in less time than a single mega-build.