Latos Data Centres has won planning approval for the UK’s first “neural edge” AI data centre in the North East town of Stockton-on-Tees. Unlike traditional “cloud” data centres, neural edge facilities bring AI power closer to businesses and communities, cutting processing times from seconds to milliseconds. Latos is Britain’s pioneering neural edge infrastructure company, with 30 years of heritage building critical digital infrastructure across the UK. The company specialises in distributed AI processing capabilities that deliver ultra-low latency inference while maintaining absolute data sovereignty. Latos’ neural edge strategy represents the next evolution in data centre design, bringing artificial intelligence capabilities directly to where data is created and consumed.