Data Centre Events Timeline

The events list below may interest the UK data centre community. It ends with a radar of events expected during 2025, but not yet timetabled

We periodically update this list, along with other sector and topic timelines, so do let us know any additions or errors

September Update

September 3-4, 2025 – PropTech Connect 2025, Intercontinental London The O2 (Europe’s largest real estate tech event)
September 9-10, 2025 – Investor Forum, Infrastructure Investor Network, London
September 10, 2025 – Future Energy System, The Spine, Liverpool
September 16-17, 2025 – DCD>Connect London 2025
September 22-October 3, 2025 – Leeds Digital Festival (programme live August 26, 025)
September 24-25, 2025 – Data Centre Dynamics DCD>Connect, Business Design Centre, London
September 24-25, 2025 - Data Centre Expo Europe 2025, Amsterdam
September 24-25, 2025 – Big Data LDN, Olympia, London
September 24-25, 2025 – Connected Britain, ExCel London
September 24- October 2, 2025 – Manchester Tech Festival, Victoria Baths, Manchester

October 11, 2025 - Deadline for EU member countries to transpose the revised EU Energy Efficiency Directive into national law
October 14, 2025 – Independent Networks Association Annual Growth Summit. Victory Services Club, London
October 21, 2025 – Data Centre Transformation, IET Birmingham Austin Court, Birmingham
October 21, 2025 – Capacity Europe 2025, Supercharging Europe’s Connectivity, O2 Intercontinental Hotel, London
October 21, 2025 - Closing date for feedback to the UK government’s consultation on modernising environmental permitting for industry (includes data centres)
October 21-22, 2025 – pro-Manchester x Data Decoded MCR, Manchester Central
October 22, 2025 – Annual GovTech Show and Exhibition 2025. Manchester
October 22-24, 2025 – Birmingham Tech Week, Birmingham
October 27, 2025 - Closing date for feedback to the UK government’s consultation on streamlining infrastructure planning

November 5-6, 2025 - Future of AI, Summit 2025, Convene at 22 Bishopsgate, London
November 10-21, 2025 – 2025 UN Climate Change Conference (COP30), Brazil
November 17-18, 2025 – Gartner Cloud Summit, London
November 19-20, 2025 – Global Manufacturing North Technology Show, Exhibition Centre, Liverpool
November 24-26, 2025 – Powering Net Zero 2025. Energy Security for the Future. Institute of Engineering & Technology. Glasgow DoubleTree Hotel

During 2025, watch out for UK government publication of the:

AI Opportunities Action Plan:
- Process to identify and select the full list of UK AI Growth Zones (expected Spring 2025)
- Outcomes of 14 actions from the AI Opportunities Action Plan (expected Spring 2025), plus an additional 13 actions by Summer 2025, and a further 13 by Autumn 2025
Cyber Security and Resilience Bill (Expected during 2025; in April 2025 the government published a scoping outline)
Circular Economy Strategy (Expected in autumn 2025)
Land Use Framework
Planning and Infrastructure Bill (in Committee Stage May 2025)

January 20-24, 2025 – 2025 Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland. (entitled “Collaboration for the Intelligent Age”)
January 22, 2025 – NCDA Data Centre of the Future, Leamington Spa
January 29, 2025 – Start date of NESO pause in UK electricity connections applications (except for demand projects and specific modification applications)
January 30-31, 2025 – Net Zero Data Centre Summit Europe, Berlin Germany

February 2, 2025 – 2nd UK Datacentre Investment Forum, techUK, Conference Centre 11 Cavendish Square London
February 5-6, 2025 - Data Centres Expo Global 2025, Olympia, London
February 6, 2025 – 2nd UK Datacentre Investment Forum, 11 Cavendish Square Conference Centre, London W1G 0AN
February 13, 2025 – The National Management and Digital Construction Conference 2025, Salford Community Stadium.
February 17-19, 2025 – Energy Storage Sumit 2025, The O2 Intercontinental, London
February 25, 2025 – The Third National Energy And Sustainability In the Public Sector Conference and Exhibition, 2025, Salford Community Stadium.
February 25-27, 2025 – International Energy Week, QEII Centre, London
February 26, 2025 – Closing date for feedback to the UK government’s consultation on planning (including Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects, NSIPs)
February 26, 2025 – Publication of the UK Government’s 7th Carbon Budget for UK greenhouse gas emissions over the 2038-2042 period.
February 28, 2025 – Closing date for Expressions of Interest for 500MW+ AI infrastructure clusters to reach UK government

March 5-6, 2025 – Sustainability Live Net Zero: The Route to A Carbon Neutral World. QEII Centre, London
March 10, 2025 – Tech Policy Conference, techUK, Westminster, London
March 10-12, 2025 - IT Nation, London
March 12-13, 2025 – Tech Show London – with Cloud & AI Infrastructure, Cloud & Cyber Security Expo, DevOps Live at ExCeL London, Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway
March 12-13, 2025 - Data Centre World, Excel London
March 12-13, 2025 – The Energy Storage Show, NEC Birmingham
March 17- 20, 2025 – AI Governance Conference Europe, Convene at 133 Houndsditch, London.
March 17-18, 2025 – AI UK 2025, Turing Institute, QEII Conference Centre, London.
March 20, 2025 – Oracle Cloud World Tour,at ExCeL London, Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway, London
March 20, 2025 – Green Tech Conference 2025, pro-Manchester, 3 Symphony Park, Manchester
March 24-25, 2025 – Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit, London
March 26, 2025 – UK Government Spring Forecast (Spending Statement), London
March 31- April 2, 2025 – Generative AI Summit, Novotel London West, London

April 14-17, 2025 – UK and World Energy Storage conference, University of Sheffield
April 22, 2025 – Data Centre Summit, Manchester Central
April 23-24, 2025 – Connected North 2025, Manchester
April 23-24, 2025 – HR Technologies, ExCel, London
April 24, 2025 - AWS Summit, ExCeL London, Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway
April 25, 2025 – Government Consultation with stakeholders on the Land Use Framework ends.
April 29-30, 2025 – OCP Regional Summit, London

May 7-8, 2025 – Futurenet World, London
May 7-8, 2025 – Turing Fest, EICC, Edinburgh
May 14-15, 2025 – Tech & AI Live, 155 Bishopsgate, London
May 14-15, 2025 – Engineering a Net Zero Future, SEC Glasgow
May 14-15, 2025 – All-Energy, SEC Glasgow
May 15, 2025 – End of the second reporting period of the European Efficiency Directive
May 20-22, 2025 – UK Real Estate Investment & Infrastructure Forum (REiiF), Royal Armouries Museum and New Dock, Leeds
May 21-24, 2025 – Gartner Data & Analytics Summit, ExCel, London
May 21, 2025 – Liverpool City Region Innovation Investment Summit for Scaling, Daresbury Laboratory, Daresbury
May 29-30, 2025 - Digital Health World Congress 2025, Great Hall, Kensington Conference and Events Centre, London
May 30, 2025 – Closing date for applications to be chosen in summer 2025 as an AI Growth Zone

June 3-5, 2025 – Datacloud Global Congress 2025, Palais Des Festivals, Cannes, France
June 4, 2025 – Deadline for feedback to the EU’s proposed Cloud and AI Development Act
June 4, 2025 – Transforming UK Public Services Digitally. The Local Government Technology Conference 2025, QEII Centre London
June 5, 2025 – DIGITExpo West, Glasgow
June 9-10, 2025 – Google Cloud Summit, Tobacco Dock, London
June 9-13, 2025 - London Tech Week, Olympia London
June 11, 2025 – UK Government Spending Review published covering 3-year departmental budgets.
June 11-12, 2025 – The AI Summit London, Tobacco Dock, London
June 12-13, 2025 – 10th IEA Annual Global Conference on Energy Efficiency, Brussels, Belgium
June 13, 2025 – 13th Computing Conference 2025, Clayton Hotel, Chiswick, London
June 18-19, 2025 - AI World Congress 2025, London
June 19, 2025 – UK government published the 10-year Infrastructure Strategy
June 20, 2025 – Deadline for submission of Expressions of Interest to the EU’s AI Gigafactories development programme
June 22, 2025 - Deadline for submission of comments on the London Plan to the Mayor of London
June 23, 2025 – UK Government publication of the refreshed Industrial Strategy
End of June 2025 – Expected publication date for the NESO final report on the North Hyde substation outage

July 1-2, 2025 – Clean Power 2030 Summits: Powering the UK’s Renewable Energy Future. UKERC. Leonardo Royal Hotel, Tower Bridge, London
July 3, 2025 – Renewable Energy Conference 2025, Mostyn Theatre, Deesside Sixth, North Wales
July 8, 2025 – NESO Connections Reform evidence portal opens
July 15, 2025 – 9th International Conference on Energy Harvesting, Storage and Transfer (EHST 2026), London Conference Centre, Imperial College. London
July 17, 2025 – The UK Government published the UK Compute Roadmap
July 24, 2025 – Discover Stockport, Stockroom Merseyway, Stockport.
July 29, 2025 – Deadline for feedback of evidence to the NESO and DNO evidence gathering

August, 2025 – Launch of the new foundational apprenticeships by the UK government under the £40 million funding to supply 60,000 more construction workers by 2029

DISCLAIMER: The above notes on some of the UK events during 2025 that may be of interest to the data centre community should not be taken as accurate or complete. It is purely a prompt to readers to conduct their own research to reach any conclusions, decisions or actions. Readers should always refer to the event organisers for authoritative information.

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