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The hype surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) has showed no signs of slowing down this year, and the impact of enterprises rushing to adopt the technology has dominated the datacentre news agenda in 2024.

The UK has seen all three of the major public cloud giants commit to building more datacentres to meet the demand for power-hungry AI workloads over the coming years, as market watchers warn that more space and power will need to be created to make room for such facilities.

Since coming to power in July 2024, the new government has responded to these concerns by vowing to lower the planning barriers to building new datacentres to accelerate the pace of new server farm builds and bolster the UK's economic growth.