The SCOPE: Powering the UK’s data centres—the need for new ideas
May 16, 2025
With grid capacity constraints causing delays, what solutions—from nuclear to renewables—could help get data centres up and running?
The SCOPE is a podcast addressing important issues influencing the sustainable future of real estate, infrastructure, the environment, and communities.
In this episode of our three-part series on data centres, we discuss their changing power needs and the likely impact of grid connection reforms and complementary solutions such as nuclear energy on the sector.
Our guests are Amy Turner, new connections lead at SEGRO, Jon Clark, associate at construction consultancy RLB, Peter Sibley, divisional director for nuclear at Stantec, and Jesal Chandi, senior utilities consultant at Stantec. They share the drivers behind data centres’ power strategies, how they see the power landscape evolving, and new ideas for delivering these mission critical facilities.
