Microsoft waited seven years for a grid connection
A case study of Microsoft's largest UK data centre: what it asked the grid for, what it paid for, and what is actually switched on.
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A case study of Microsoft's largest UK data centre: what it asked the grid for, what it paid for, and what is actually switched on.
Read the researchAll 26 accelerated transmission projects across the three licences. Where the dates have moved, which allowances are public, what money has gone out before assessment, and where each one is in planning.
Read the reportSource: UK electricity grid map, 17 September 2026
The first verified map of the UK electricity transmission build-out. 48 nodes, 58 flows and 1,347 sourced facts, plus an open record of what I have not got to yet.
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