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Drax Unveils £20 Billion AI Data Centre Plans at UK Biomass Plant

OilPrice.com3 November 2026, 17:00 UTCUnited Kingdom

Energy company Drax has unveiled plans to build a new data centre at the site of its North Yorkshire power plant, which uses wood as fuel. The FTSE 250 firm’s biomass plant is predominantly powered by wood pellets, but also uses straw and sunflower pellets. The company said it intends to use surplus energy capacity at the plant to power the new facility, in a new partnership with AI infrastructure business Radiant. Drax said it hoped the total capacity of the data centre would exceed one gigawatt, with the first phase to deliver up to 100…

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