London and Chicago – 18  Nov, 2025  – InfraPartners, a global leader in prefabricated AI data center solutions, and JLL, one of the world’s largest real estate and investment management companies, have announced a new strategic agreement aimed at transforming how AI data centers are developed and operated. The partnership brings together InfraPartners’ next-generation prefabricated digital infrastructure and JLL’s extensive capabilities in site selection, project execution, construction oversight, financial structuring, and long-term facilities management.

This collaboration arrives at a pivotal time for the UK’s real estate and digital infrastructure sectors. With investment in AI and data centers accelerating rapidly, the market is seeking delivery models that ensure speed, resilience and operational certainty. For the UK where demand for AI-ready facilities is rising due to growth in automation, cloud computing, financial services technology, and government digital transformation, this partnership could play a significant role in strengthening the nation’s competitiveness.

The joint model is designed to address chronic challenges associated with data center development, including labour shortages, project delays, and financing complexities. By enabling accelerated deployment of scalable, energy-efficient AI infrastructure, the partnership aligns with the UK’s broader ambitions to expand its digital economy and modernise real estate assets with next-generation capabilities.

In an official press release, Michalis Grigoratos, CEO at InfraPartners said “We are seeing increased demand for faster, lower-risk routes to delivering AI infrastructure, our prefabricated, upgradeable digital infrastructure integrates seamlessly with JLL’s expertise across the full project lifecycle, so, together we’re focused on providing a superior product that keeps pace with AI infrastructure changes and market growth. Our globally scalable, repeatable approach includes site selection, prefabrication and long-term operations, reducing time-to-first-token and maximizing performance across the lifecycle.”

For the UK real estate market, the partnership is expected to ease the pressure on developers seeking faster project timelines and more predictable outcomes critical factors as AI adoption expands across industries. Prefabricated data center modules manufactured offsite will enable superior quality control, minimize onsite construction risks, and standardize deployment processes. These advantages position the UK to respond more efficiently to the demand for GPU-ready facilities and advanced AI compute environments.

Matt Landek, JLL Division President, Data Centers and Critical Environments said, “AI infrastructure demands a new approach – one that’s as dynamic and high-performing as the workloads it supports, with InfraPartners, we are delivering a unique blueprint that brings real estate, engineering and operational precision into a unified model.”

This combined blueprint is expected to support UK stakeholders from hyperscalers and colocation operators to enterprise clients by providing routes to deploy AI-ready infrastructure with greater speed, precision and confidence. The approach also aligns with the growing requirement for institutional-grade real estate assets that support mission-critical digital operations.

“This is one of the first collaborations to fully integrate data center design, manufacturing, construction, commissioning, computer deployment and lifecycle management for institutional-grade real estate delivery, marking a significant shift in shortening the time to monetization for how mission-critical infrastructure assets are developed and maintained,” added Kristen Vosmaer, Managing Director.

The partnership’s strategic value is particularly relevant to the UK as the region intensifies efforts to expand data center capacity amid increasing regulation, rising energy constraints, and heightened sustainability expectations. InfraPartners’ focus on energy-efficient, upgradeable units complements national objectives to modernize infrastructure, attract high-value digital investment, and strengthen economic resilience.

Initially targeting high-growth AI markets in EMEA and the United States in Q1 2026, the collaboration includes plans to expand into additional regions. For the UK, early access to an integrated, end-to-end delivery model could accelerate the development of AI-ready real estate assets, improving deployment speed and reducing risks for investors, developers and operators.

As the UK positions itself at the forefront of AI transformation, this partnership offers a timely opportunity to enhance the country’s digital infrastructure foundations supporting innovation, economic growth, and long-term competitiveness in the global technology landscape.