Analysis
The numbers behind the plan
Dated, sourced analysis that feeds one step of the flow. Each piece ends where its numbers are used.
Plan · siting Where is Europe building data centres outside the big hubs? Our tracker counts 295 data-centre projects outside Europe’s seven hub metros. See which countries lead and how far their projects have got. 
Plan · pipeline and planning risk Where Europe says no to data centres: 23 decisions and who made them 23 decisions since 2025 stopped, banned or rationed data centres in Europe. The widest-reaching ones sit in grid rules and zoning plans. 
Plan · grid connection tracker How long does a data-centre grid connection take in Europe? From 7.5 months to an offer in Ireland to the late 2030s in Amsterdam: the published waits, and the allocation rules that matter more. 
Plan · siting Data centre waste heat reuse depends on who is next door At PUE 1.2, a 10% energy reuse share for a 1 MW IT hall is about 120 kW on average. A nearby heat network and summer demand decide the rest. 
Plan · market comparison European Grid Index for data centres, September 2026 Hourly grid carbon for 12 European markets in September 2026. Norway averaged 24 g, Poland 547 g; timing could cut a flexible load’s carbon by up to 58%. 
Plan · power sourcing Small Modular Reactor for a Data Centre: How It Works, What It Takes How an SMR makes power, which designs are licensed, which data-centre deals are signed, and what 100 MW and 1 GW campuses need. 
Plan · siting How to Choose a Data Centre Location: Five Maps, Two Permanent Siting a data centre means overlaying five constraint maps. Three are dissolving this decade. Two never will, and they point to a place we know. 
Plan · planning risk Data Center Opposition Is Now America’s Real AI Bottleneck Local opposition blocked or delayed $130 billion of US data-center projects in Q1 2026. Why permits, not only power or chips, now limit the AI buildout. 
Plan · grid connection Phantom Data Center Power Demand Is Raising Your Bill Phantom data center power demand is padding PJM’s capacity auction — and ordinary households are paying for gigawatts that will never get built. 
Plan · siting Samsung’s Floating Data Center: 50 MW, Permits Unsettled Samsung and Mousterian have a 50 MW floating data centre engineering deal. Site, power and approvals remain unresolved; shipyard fabrication may still shorten delivery. 
Plan · grid connection tracker AI Data Center Power Bottleneck: Rack Power and Grid Waits, 2026 Power, not GPUs, sets the schedule for an AI data center. What 10 MW of IT load holds at today’s rack ratings, and the published grid waits in the US and Europe. 
Plan · power sourcing The $1 Trillion Data Center Boom Is Breaking the Grid The AI data center boom has officially gone parabolic: global spending is crossing the $1 trillion mark in 2026, power demand is set to double, and the grid can’t cope. 
Plan · siting Urban Micro-Data Centers: Explore the Era of Neighborhood Cloud Infrastructure On February 12, 2026, the City of St. Louis quietly released a document that may well become the blueprint for modern urban planning in the artificial intelligence age. The text was a draft of new zoning regulations, but its contents addressed a phenomenon that has moved rapidly from theoretical white papers to physical reality: the […] 
Plan · market comparison Gigawatts and Guilt: 5 Crucial Data Center Trends Redefining the AI Boom “As Anthropic pledges to subsidize the grid and DeepSeek rewrites efficiency rules, new data center trends emerge from the chaos.”