The Market
High industrial power prices. A worldwide data-centre power crunch
THE MARKET
UK & Ireland suffer the highest industrial power costs in Europe
Europe-wide, industrial power costs between two and four times wholesale price by the time it reaches the end user. For large industrial and commercial users in the UK and Ireland it's between 2x and 2.5x wholesale, and that means around 23p / 26c per kWh averaged across 12 months (Jan–Dec 2025).
Both countries are deeply committed to net-zero; much of that user cost is incurred by additional grid investment and power balancing in the absence of consistent inexpensive clean baseload from highly variable renewables. Nuclear, even small-modular, is a decade away at best.
Electrification of existing energy consumption, plus new industrial applications such as AI data centres, will only exacerbate the problem, placing more upward pressure on pricing. Global energy markets add volatility and dramatic price swings — usually for the worse.
There is a solution — self-generation, or the ability to secure a stable direct or local-network supply from the generator at consistent and predictable pricing.
INDEPENDENT VALIDATION
Stable pricing
Independent validation of pilot operation and multi-category testing at Arnstadt, Germany — reviewed by the UK Environment Agency.
THE DATA-CENTRE CRUNCH
Power shortages are mothballing new US AI data centres
There's a growing bottleneck impacting the rollout of AI data centres in the US. Morgan Stanley (November 2025) estimates a current 20% shortfall in power supply, rising to 44% by 2028. Others are calling it a “power crunch”. Tech firms are crying out for power; their plans scuppered by shortage. The Administration has decreed that new data centres must generate their own power.
The USA is typically a low-cost power market; the problem is not the cost, but the limitations on transmission and the near-universal lack of generation capacity.
Self-generation solutions are desperately needed. Current stipulations require them to be environmentally sympathetic. Wind and solar require vast battery arrays for storage, easily trebling installation costs. Nuclear runs into billions and takes years or decades to construct.
GCORE provides the solution. Clean, secure, continuous power. In 24 months. Powered by landfill waste.
PRIORITY OFF-TAKERS
At-site secure supply
Power for data centres and industrial users — delivered directly into customer substations or a local private-wire network.