Plans have been unveiled to transform a former steelworks into one of the UK’s largest sustainable AI data centres, with the developer saying it will create thousands of jobs and billions of pounds of inward investment. The proposals would see a data centre and battery energy storage centre built on the site of the former Ravenscraig steelworks in Motherwell, which closed in 1992. Once it is up and running, Apatura said the £3.9 billion centre will support 2,399 long-term jobs and contribute an additional 0.4 per cent to Scotland’s annual GDP. The former British Steel works at Ravenscraig in Motherwell being demolished by a controlled explosion in 1992. Apature said constrained energy payments cost £1 billion last year and are forecast to rise to £3 billion by 2030.
