{"id":25522,"date":"2026-10-19T10:37:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T08:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/19\/microsoft-pulls-out-of-ai-datacentre-project-in-essex-over-power-supply-concerns\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T10:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T08:37:20","slug":"microsoft-pulls-out-of-ai-datacentre-project-in-essex-over-power-supply-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/19\/microsoft-pulls-out-of-ai-datacentre-project-in-essex-over-power-supply-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft pulls out of AI datacentre project in Essex over power supply concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Development by UK firm Nscale heralded by ministers as largest of its kind in country loses anchor tenant<\/p>\n<p>The development of a huge AI datacentre hailed by the UK government has received a fresh setback after Microsoft pulled out of the project over concerns about power supplies.<\/p>\n<p>The development by the British company Nscale, heralded by ministers as the country\u2019s largest AI datacentre when it was announced in 2025, was planned to open at Loughton in Essex next year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2026\/oct\/18\/microsoft-drops-huge-ai-datacentre-project-in-essex-over-power-supply-concerns\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/48d031cc06f5ca17cafd75b0f30a1537d4f35d43\/7_0_686_549\/master\/686.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=c5cf32679a4362ea71e1465a65af9593\" title=\"Microsoft pulls out of AI datacentre project in Essex over power supply concerns\" \/>Development by UK firm Nscale heralded by ministers as largest of its kind in country loses anchor tenant<br \/>\nThe development of a huge AI datacentre hailed by the UK government has received a fresh setback after Microsoft pulled out of the project over concerns about power supplies.<br \/>\nThe development by the British company Nscale, heralded by ministers as the country\u2019s largest AI datacentre when it was announced in 2025, was planned to open at Loughton in Essex next year. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Development by UK firm Nscale heralded by ministers as largest of its kind in country loses anchor tenant The development of a huge AI datacentre hailed by the UK government has received a fresh setback after Microsoft pulled out of the project over concerns about power supplies. The development by the British company Nscale, heralded &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/19\/microsoft-pulls-out-of-ai-datacentre-project-in-essex-over-power-supply-concerns\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft pulls out of AI datacentre project in Essex over power supply concerns<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25522"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}