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Civo plans to deploy 40 edge data centers across Britain to power sovereign AI, with the first site in Hertfordshire (March 2027) housing NVIDIA Vera Rubin systems and a longer-term ambition to scale to 1 GW capacity.

UK's sovereign AI strategy gains tangible infrastructure; 1 GW edge-compute goal and Vera Rubin deployment position Britain as Europe's secondary AI-compute hub behind Germany; reduces dependence on U.S. public clouds for latency-sensitive AI workloads.
Trade pressSlicast · September 22, 2026 at 12:13 UTC · Global · Source: The Register
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