# Brookfield plans £20bn AI data center in Yorkshire

> Brookfield and Drax Group will jointly develop a massive artificial intelligence data center at a power station in North Yorkshire, with potential investment exceeding £20 billion.
- Title: Brookfield plans £20bn AI data center in Yorkshire · CNBC
- Summary: Brookfield and Drax Group will jointly develop a massive artificial intelligence data center at a power station in North Yorkshire, with potential investment…
- Keywords: brookfield, drax group, ai data center, north yorkshire, drax power station, radiant, artificial intelligence infrastructure, business, finance, plans, 20bn, data
- Source: CNBC — https://cnbc.com/2026/11/03/brookfield-ai-data-center-yorkshire-drax.html
- Author: Kai Nicol-Schwarz
- Published: 2026-11-03T08:28:11+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: brookfield, drax group, ai data center, north yorkshire, drax power station, radiant, artificial intelligence infrastructure, business, finance
## Brookfield and Drax plan Yorkshire data center
Brookfield and its neocloud platform Radiant have signed an agreement with energy company Drax Group to jointly develop an AI data center at Drax Power Station in North Yorkshire.
## Investment could exceed £20 billion
Brookfield estimates total investment, including semiconductors, could exceed twenty billion pounds, with an initial two point five billion pounds investment as part of phase one.
## Capacity to reach one gigawatt by 2031
The project targets one hundred megawatts operational from first quarter twenty twenty-eight, five hundred megawatts between twenty twenty-eight and twenty thirty-one, then more than one gigawatt at an unspecified date.
## Key takeaway

Brookfield is building a one gigawatt AI data center in North Yorkshire with Drax Group, targeting twenty billion pounds in total investment as Europe races to develop AI infrastructure.