{"id":971256,"date":"2025-11-03T07:35:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T02:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=971256"},"modified":"2025-11-03T07:47:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T02:17:30","slug":"equinix-to-invest-5-billion-in-ai-data-centres-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/03\/equinix-to-invest-5-billion-in-ai-data-centres-in-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Equinix to invest $5 billion in AI data centres in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digital infrastructure group Equinix on Thursday announced plans to invest \u00a33.9 billion ($5.1 billion) on new AI data centres near London, boosting Britain&#8217;s ambition of becoming a leader in artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>An AI &#8220;campus&#8221; will be constructed in the county of Hertfordshire, north of the capital, and follows recent announcements from US technology giants Microsoft and Google to invest billions of dollars in Britain&#8217;s artificial intelligence sector.<\/p>\n<p>The investment by Nasdaq-listed Equinix &#8220;is a clear sign of commitment to the UK&#8217;s ambition to lead in sovereign AI&#8221;, it said in a joint statement with Britain&#8217;s Labour government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital infrastructure group Equinix on Thursday announced plans to invest \u00a33.9 billion ($5.1 billion) on new AI data centres near London, boosting Britain&#8217;s ambition of becoming a leader in artificial intelligence. An AI &#8220;campus&#8221; will be constructed in the county of Hertfordshire, north of the capital, and follows recent announcements from US technology giants Microsoft and Google to invest billions of dollars in Britain&#8217;s artificial intelligence sector. The investment by Nasdaq-listed Equinix &#8220;is a clear sign of commitment to the UK&#8217;s ambition to lead in sovereign AI&#8221;, it said in a joint statement with Britain&#8217;s Labour government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-971256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}