The opportunity
Europe’s grid is full. AI demand is accelerating. And the fastest path to new capacity isn’t greenfield, it’s the powered industrial sites that already exist.
PoweringAI converts large, grid-connected brownfield and port sites into data centre-ready developments. We embed cross-disciplinary expertise from day one: across land, planning, grid, energy and construction. This de-risks complex sites and compresses development timelines by 2–4 years versus conventional greenfield.
What we offer
- Off-market pipeline in prime locations
- Speed to market via existing grid
- Partner ecosystem as infrastructure
- Long-term optionality over energy cost and supply resilience.
Integrated energy architecture
Our development model is designed to accommodate an integrated energy layer alongside the data centre build. We are actively assembling the partnerships and capabilities to deliver this, targeting phased energisation that reduces time-to-revenue, dispatch and storage optimisation that structurally lowers delivered energy cost, and an SLA-first control architecture that protects uptime while unlocking flexibility value across the asset.
Multiple sites
under active development
across the UK and Europe
350MW+
at pre-feasibility stage
Partnerships
with leading energy and technology companies
The team
PoweringAI is led by a team with deep experience across infrastructure development, energy markets, data centre operations and large-scale capital deployment. We work alongside specialist partners in grid engineering, energy trading, EPC and cooling — assembled to move complex projects from origination to investment-ready at pace.
Michael Youtsos
Director and Chair
Deep expertise in energy transition investment, industrial asset conversion, and complex infrastructure deal delivery. 70+ transactions across energy and industrial sectors.
Thomas Winton
Development Lead
Bridges data centres and energy systems, linking commercial strategy and engineering to deliver investable, technically sound development plans.
Alex Rabbetts
Senior Advisor
40 years of data centre experience spanning design, construction and operations. Regularly engaged to deliver due diligence on data centre transactions worldwide.
Amy Marshall
Partner
25 years of expertise in industrial regeneration, energy transition and complex infrastructure, including direct experience assessing the development potential of major UK industrial sites.
Who we work with
Data centre developers, owners and investors
Meet with us to discuss our sites, pipeline and the platform.
Site owners and industrials
Meet with us to discuss how we can convert your site into a de-risked, data centre-ready development — unlocking land value through a structured partnership.
Energy, technology and infrastructure partners
Meet with us to discuss how we can pool capabilities and work together across our European pipeline.
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