Drax power station
The Drax power station site is the UK’s single largest emitter of carbon dioxide, according to analysts. Photograph: Gary Calton/The Observer
The Drax power station site is the UK’s single largest emitter of carbon dioxide, according to analysts. Photograph: Gary Calton/The Observer
UK’s most polluting power plant could power country’s largest AI datacentre

Drax’s FTSE 250 owner strikes £20bn deal to build infrastructure in what it says is site’s ‘next chapter’

Britain’s most polluting power plant could soon power the country’s largest datacentre under a £20bn deal to build AI infrastructure on the site of the Drax power plant in North Yorkshire.