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Wales to get second AI zone to help deliver data centres

Western Mail

November 22, 2025

WALES is getting a second artificial intelligence (AI) growth zone aimed at accelerating the delivery of new data centres and supporting required skills.

- SION BARRY Business editor sion.barry@walesonline.co.uk

Following confirmation of an AI growth zone for north Wales, the UK Government has announced a second in south Wales that will cover a number of data centre and planned data centre sites, including the former Bridgend Ford engine plant where US data centre company Vantage Data Centers is taking forward investment, worth billions of pounds, to build a campus of 10 data centres.

It also includes Vantage’s data centre project, for which it was recently granted planning consent, at the Welsh Government-owned Bro Tathan business park in the Vale of Glamorgan. The south Wales zone also covers Microsoft's data centre project in Newport.

The combined investment in data centres in south Wales, although the majority will be constructed related, is forecast to create 5,000 jobs over the next decade.

As part of a network of UK-wide AI growth zones, data centres within them will be:

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