Britain announces fast-track grid plan for strategically important data centres

Britain announced a fast-track plan offering strategically important data centres priority grid connections and planning support, Reuters reports. Chancellor John Healey’s covenant ties priority access to local investment, jobs and protection of water supplies; permission to build on-site power generation would apply where necessary. Healey wants sensitive military and public-service AI processing kept in Britain, while developers have identified grid-connection delays as an obstacle.