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Primary Domain

Data Centre Power and Permitting

Within the Primary Domain facet, Data Centre Power and Permitting intelligence groups reporting by primary domain so readers can follow a focused area of internet infrastructure, governance, connectivity markets, or digital capital. The page brings together related articles, public evidence, institutions, companies, people, regional exposure, operating dependencies, and market context that may otherwise sit across separate category pages. It explains the domain, the likely actor class, the market or governance context, and the source material readers should use when comparing signals. Operators, analysts, and governance readers can see how the same domain appears across events, profiles, market shifts, public-source evidence, regional dependencies, and longer-cycle infrastructure decisions over time.

A high-voltage transmission substation with lattice pylons at dusk, a low industrial data-centre building lit at the edge of the frame, and cable trenches in the foreground.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends

Britain Screened the Power Stations and Waved the Servers Through

Ofgem's 2025 connections reform deleted more than 300 GW of speculative generation against a strategic-need test — then left roughly 99 GW of transmission-connected demand standing, because demand sat outside the technology scope that test was written around. For anyone building…

Nov 11, 2026
Illustration of a French electrical substation feeding an AI data center campus outside Paris, with layered panels depicting a connection contract, a design ceiling and a server stack

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends

Mistral Compute's Megawatt Problem: Contracted, Designed, Financed

A single number dominates coverage of Mistral Compute's French AI-infrastructure ambitions: 1.4 gigawatts. The public record tells a more layered story — an announced 1,400 MW design ceiling, 700 megawatts actually contracted in two dated tranches, and $830 million of debt tied…

Sep 28, 2026