Building the UK’s national AI infrastructure:

From land to power to compute

Carbon3.ai is developing a new national AI infrastructure network for the UK — built on owned land, powered by UK-generated renewable energy, and designed and operated under UK jurisdiction to deliver secure, affordable, high-performance compute capacity for organisations across the country.

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National infrastructure, built on owned land and owned power

Carbon3.ai transforms legacy industrial and energy sites into modern AI data centres engineered to meet the UK’s urgent compute and energy needs.

We address critical national needs:

Reliable, scalable compute for public services, research, and industry

Reduced pressure on the national grid through independent renewable power pathways

More affordable access to compute for UK innovators

Infrastructure built on owned brownfield land, accelerating development and ensuring long-term control

What sets Carbon3.ai apart:

We own the land our data centres are built on

Our power is UK-generated renewable energy (landfill gas, waste-to-energy, solar)

Designed and operated under UK jurisdiction

Option for off-grid, independently powered operation, reducing costs and increasing resilience

A network of data-centre-ready sites already secured, enabling rapid scaling

East Midlands.
South East England (Oxford–Cambridge Arc).
North West England (live modular deployment).
Carbon3.ai operates a large and diverse footprint across England, with a mix of major development sites and rapid- deployment locations built on owned and secured land.

Centred on a major development zone in the south-east region of Northern Ireland, Carbon3.ai-owned land within an established industrial corridor.
Transforming legacy industrial areas into high-density, renewable-integrated compute infrastructure supporting long-term regional growth.

Transforming legacy industrial areas into high-density, renewable-integrated compute infrastructure supporting long-term regional growth.
Carbon3.ai’s Welsh footprint combines large development sites with flexible rapid-deployment locations, reusing historic industrial land to create significant digital-infrastructure capacity.

Centred on a major development zone in South East Scotland, supported by strong transmission and renewable-generation opportunities.
Carbon3.ai’s Scottish presence integrates data-centre development with regional energy clusters including nuclear, wind, and storage.

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Scalable:

expansion-ready sites built on existing industrial land

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Resilient:

with independent renewable power pathways and reduced reliance on the grid

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Accessible:

cost-efficient compute for the full UK ecosystem

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Reliable:

designed to national-scale performance standards

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UK-controlled:

operated under UK jurisdiction for public-sector and regulated workloads

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Brian Lochead
Chief Financial Officer

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Joseph Parry
Chief Corporate Development Officer

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Mark Dawber
Chief Energy Officer

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Mick McNeil
Chief Business Officer

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Nick Hume
Chief Technical Officer

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Richard Collier-Keywood
Senior Advisor

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Sana Khareghani
Chief Strategy Officer

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Sir George Zambellas
Senior Advisor

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Tom Humphreys
Chief Executive Officer

“The UK needs up to 6.3GW of data-centre capacity by 2030, and projects like Carbon3.ai’s are critical to meeting that demand sustainably.”

“By repurposing former industrial land, Carbon3.ai hopes to deliver secure, affordable compute for UK businesses and public services.”

“The company’s mission is to build AI-ready data centres that keep ownership, jurisdiction and control firmly in UK hands.”

Our Products

Carbon3.ai provides secure, high-performance AI compute delivered on UK-based, renewable-powered infrastructure. Our solutions offer organisations reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient access to the compute required for modern AI development.

A production-ready AI playground for UK organisations

The Private AI Lab gives UK teams a secure, renewable-powered environment to build, test, and validate their first real AI use case — fully funded by Carbon3.ai.

Designed with HPE’s engineered AI stack and delivered on Carbon3.ai’s locally governed infrastructure, it lets organisations:

Develop and validate a production-ready use case in weeks
Access GPU compute and expert engineering at zero cost
Access GPU compute and expert engineering at zero cost
De-risk AI adoption with structured discovery, pilot execution, and production planning
A fast, low-risk way for enterprises, public institutions, and researchers to accelerate AI without upfront investment.

A complete, platform to build, run, and scale AI workloads

CarbonCore provides everything teams need to create, deploy, and manage AI at scale — from training and fine-tuning to serverless orchestration and high-volume inference.

CarbonCore gives you:

Integrated workspaces for model training, registry, pipelines, and evaluation
Scalable inference endpoints deployable in minutes
Serverless Kubernetes for simplified workload operations
Secure, compliant, locally governed environments
Access to high-performance NVIDIA GPU compute with predictable economics
A fully integrated platform that turns AI ideas into reliable production systems — without infrastructure complexity.

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Government & public sector

UK-jurisdiction compute for sovereign data and regulated workloads

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Defence & national security

infrastructure operated under UK jurisdiction with independent power and land

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Research institutions & universities

sustainable, high-performance compute

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Enterprise & hyperscalers

scalable, lower-cost, off-grid-capable AI capacity

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Startups & innovators

affordable pathways to high-performance compute

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Investors

high-impact national projects on owned land

Building the UK’s national AI infrastructure:

From land to power to compute

National infrastructure, built on owned land and owned power

Carbon3.ai transforms legacy industrial and energy sites into modern AI data centres engineered to meet the UK’s urgent compute and energy needs.

We address critical national needs:

Reliable, scalable compute for public services, research, and industry

Reduced pressure on the national grid through independent renewable power pathways

More affordable access to compute for UK innovators

Infrastructure built on owned brownfield land, accelerating development and ensuring long-term control

What sets Carbon3.ai apart:

We own the land our data centres are built on

Our power is UK-generated renewable energy (landfill gas, waste-to-energy, solar)

Designed and operated under UK jurisdiction

Option for off-grid, independently powered operation, reducing costs and increasing resilience

A network of data-centre-ready sites already secured, enabling rapid scaling

Sites

Transforming Brownfield land into national AI infrastructure

England

The UK’s AI backbone, delivering scalable, renewable-powered compute across a national network. Anchored by major development zones across:

Northern Ireland

A strategic AI infrastructure hub unlocking new economic and digital potential.

Wales

A nationally important cluster of clean-energy-integrated compute sites.

Scotland

One of the UK’s fastest routes to renewable-powered AI compute.

East Midlands.

South East England (Oxford–Cambridge Arc).

North West England (live modular deployment).

Carbon3.ai operates a large and diverse footprint across England, with a mix of major development sites and rapid- deployment locations built on owned and secured land.

Centred on a major development zone in the south-east region of Northern Ireland, Carbon3.ai-owned land within an established industrial corridor.

Transforming legacy industrial areas into high-density, renewable-integrated compute infrastructure supporting long-term regional growth.

Transforming legacy industrial areas into high-density, renewable-integrated compute infrastructure supporting long-term regional growth.

Carbon3.ai’s Welsh footprint combines large development sites with flexible rapid-deployment locations, reusing historic industrial land to create significant digital-infrastructure capacity.

Centred on a major development zone in South East Scotland, supported by strong transmission and renewable-generation opportunities.

Carbon3.ai’s Scottish presence integrates data-centre development with regional energy clusters including nuclear, wind, and storage.

Why this infrastructure matters

The UK Government has committed to reaching 6 GW of AI Capacity by 2030.