<p>Drax’s FTSE 250 owner strikes £20bn deal to build infrastructure in what it says is site’s ‘next chapter’</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2026/nov/03/saudi-oil-company-profits-australian-central-bank-rates-brent-crude-crypto-hack-energy-prices-latest-news-updates">Business live – latest updates</a></p></li></ul><p></p><p>Britain’s most polluting power plant could soon power the country’s largest datacentre under a £20bn deal to build AI infrastructure on the site of the Drax power plant in North Yorkshire.</p><p>The power plant’s FTSE 250 owner has struck a deal with the infrastructure investor Brookfield and and the AI infrastructure platform Radiant to develop a datacentre with an eventual capacity of more than 1 gigawatt that could begin operations by early 2028.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/nov/03/uk-drax-power-station-ai-datacentre">Continue reading...</a>
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UK’s most polluting power plant could power country’s largest AI datacentre
<p>Drax’s FTSE 250 owner strikes £20bn deal to build infrastructure in what it says is site’s ‘next chapter’</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2026/nov/03/saudi-oil-company-profits-australian-central-bank-rates-brent-crude-crypto-hack-energy-prices-latest-news-updates">Business live – latest updates</a></p></li></ul><p></p><p>Britain’s most polluting power plant could soon power the country’s largest datacentre under a £20bn deal to build AI infrastructure on the site of the Drax power plant in North Yorkshire.</p><p>The power plant’s FTSE 250 owner has struck a deal with the infrastructure investor Brookfield and and the AI infrastructure platform Radiant to develop a datacentre with an eventual capacity of more than 1 gigawatt that could begin operations by early 2028.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/nov/03/uk-drax-power-station-ai-datacentre">Continue reading...</a>