Customer stories: Kao Data
As demand for AI and advanced computing accelerates, data centre operators face a critical challenge: how to scale sustainably while maintaining resilience and performance.
Helping Kao Data to power the UK's AI ambitions with renewable electricity
The challenge: Balancing scaling AI infrastructure with achieving decarbonisation goals
Kao Data, a specialist developer of high-performance data centres, collaborates with Shell Energy to meet this challenge - securing electricity matched with generation from UK-based renewable assets1.
Kao Data designs and operates data centres engineered specifically for AI and advanced compute workloads. These facilities require:
Large, consistent volumes of electricity.
High levels of resilience and uptime.
Long-term contracts to support rapid growth.
At the same time, access to power is increasingly constrained across the sector, making it essential to work with trusted energy partners.
The solution: A long-term relationship built on shared ambition.
Since 2022, Shell Energy has supported Kao Data with a tailored renewable energy solution designed around its operational and sustainability goals.
This includes:
Approximately 140 GWh of renewable electricity annually.
All electricity consumption matched with UK-based renewable generation.
Ongoing collaboration on long-term energy management and decarbonisation strategy.
The impact: Enabling digital growth, while meeting decarbonisation targets.
Together, Shell Energy and Kao Data are helping to set a benchmark for how energy and technology companies can enable a low-carbon digital future.
Key outcomes include:
Supporting Kao Data's broader ambition to become carbon neutral by 2030.
Enabling growth in AI and high-performance computing.
Strengthening resilience through a long-term energy partnership
"Our collaboration with Shell Energy has been instrumental in shaping our long-term energy management and decarbonisation strategy. Extending this relationship ensures our customers remain powered by 100% certified, UK-generated renewable power." James Lewis, Investment Director, Kao Data
Let's power what's next
Whether you’re scaling capacity, navigating grid constraints, or accelerating decarbonisation plans, we can help build an energy strategy that supports your long-term ambitions.
Speak to our team to explore how Shell Energy can support your business.
1 Asset‑specific Renewable Energy Guarantees of Origin (REGO) certificates evidence the renewable attributes of electricity supplied, without implying the physical delivery of power from a named generation asset.