Planning approval has been secured by Latos for a new £100m data centre specialising in AI inference capabilities.
The 18,836 sq ft centre will be located at Preston Farm Industrial Estate in Stocton-on-Tees and will house NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs.
Latos, a neural edge infrastructure company, plans to open the site in early 2027.
“From robotics to autonomous transportation, real-time AI is set to transform how we live and work,” said Latos managing director Andy Collin.
“But businesses need totally new data centre infrastructure to capitalise on these opportunities.
“We pioneered neural edge designs to meet this need. They support the most demanding workloads, are highly energy efficient and can be built faster and at lower cost than conventional data centres.”
The company said neural edge data facilities differ from conventional cloud computing centres by eliminating data latency. This infrastructure is purpose-built for AI use cases.
Latos was founded in 2021 and is planning to construct its neural edge data centres in major urban centres including Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds and Glasgow, with the goal of developing a comprehensive neural edge network in support of British AI infrastructure sovereignty.
The announcement follows a handful of billion-pound commitments from US tech firms including Microsoft, CoreWeave and Google to build new data infrastructure in the UK.