Microsoft ditches residency plans at UK's largest data center over power supply concerns

Microsoft pulls out of the UK's largest data center project over concerns surrounding power supply

The site was expected to be hooked up to the grid by 2027, but new estimates suggest it will not be operational until early 2030

Microsoft was the site's only publicly announced customer

Microsoft has announced it will pull out of a project the UK government had previously dubbed the country’s largest AI data center.

A backlog of power capacity for UK data centers means…