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To meet that demand, EfficiencyIT is expanding its UK manufacturing capability.“ We’ ve taken on a large manufacturing facility that will accommodate many, many, modules. We are investing heavily in that facility,” he explains.“ We would expect to be able to have 20 to 40 modules in it at any one time.”
The business applies a strategy of parallel work streams, undertaking civil construction on-site while prefabricating AI and data centre infrastructure off-site.“ Once the foundations are built, we turn up and roll in 10, 20 or 30 modules, power solutions, compute infrastructure, connect it up and turn it on,” he says. That approach cuts speed-to-market dramatically.
Nick highlights the economics driving this scale-up.“ If you were to look at building a megawatt of compute, it might cost you £ 5m to £ 10m( US $ 6.6m to US $ 13.3m) to build the infrastructure to support it.
“ But that megawatt of compute could then be worth tens, if not hundreds of millions of pounds.
“ Obviously, the quicker you are operating that investment, the quicker you are monetising it. And that’ s why speed to market is so important.”
Supporting government, defence and scientific research EfficiencyIT’ s customers include government departments, military
84 December 2025