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Brookfield and Qatar Investment Authority Agree £2.5 Billion Data Center Investment With Drax

November 3, 2026 at 02:55 EST

Infra & Chips
Funding & M&A

Brookfield and the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) have agreed to invest £2.5 billion (about $3.3 billion) in a data center project with UK power generator Drax, according to a report from Bloomberg.

Reported deal · Brookfield, QIA and Drax

A £2.5 billion data center investment links finance, sovereign capital and UK power

Brookfield and the Qatar Investment Authority have agreed to invest in a data center project with UK power generator Drax. The total is reported at about $3.3 billion, but the split, location and timeline have not yet been disclosed.

£2.5bn

Reported total investment (about $3.3bn)

Parties: Brookfield, QIA and Drax

Published breakdowns of capital split, location or schedule

Total investment, drawn to scale

Each block represents £0.1 billion. The reported total is 25 blocks (£2.5bn), about $3.3bn. The split between partners is not disclosed, so the column is shown as one total.

£2.5 billion (25 blocks)

≈ $3.3 billion (converted, same total)

Takeaway: the headline figure is clear, but how it divides among Brookfield, QIA and Drax is still unknown.

How the partners fit together

Brookfield

Infrastructure investor · financing

QIA

Qatari sovereign wealth fund · financing

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Data center project

£2.5bn total · AI and cloud demand

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Drax

UK power generator · energy expertise

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