Robert Boswall

"large-scale AI data centres will not be built [in the UK] because it is too expensive in terms of power ... too expensive to run and too far away, from a planning, consenting and access-to-power perspective." - Dame Dawn Childs Non-exec director of Pure Data Centres Group (Oaktree/Brookfield-backed, over 1GW of capacity live or in development, reportedly valued at £4–5bn) and CEO of nLighten (an I Squared-backed pan-European edge data centre platform, ~34 sites), to the Environmental Audit Committee, 10th June 2026