How the memory crisis is strangling the UK's data center boom

A long corridor with a sleek black floor, glowing green lights in the ceiling and rows of LEDS on either wall.

As the foundations for the AI economy are laid, the UK’s data center expansion has driven a mixture of headlines around its innovations and challenges.

But the ambitious IT infrastructure strategy is hitting a wall – and it isn’t power or space. The global memory shortage is starving projects of a critical hardware component as it drains from the market.