The UK is building data centres faster than at any point in its history, and the contracts that follow are reshaping order books across construction, power, cooling, connectivity and managed services. Government forecasts put UK data centre capacity at between 3.3 GW and 6.3 GW by 2030, up from around 1.6 GW in 2024 — a doubling at minimum, a near-quadrupling at best (Data Centres: Planning Policy, Sustainability and Resilience, GOV.UK, 26 August 2025). For suppliers, that translates into a multi-year pipeline of data centre contracts spanning civils, high-voltage power, liquid cooling, fibre, physical security and operations. The problem is…
