Microsoft ditches residency plans at UK's largest data center over power supply concerns
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Walking away from the UK’s largest data center over power constraints shows that electrons, not land, are the gating factor for hyperscale AI. When you plan where to run heavy workloads, treat grid capacity and permitting as first-order variables, not afterthoughts.
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