{"id":452,"date":"2026-05-09T21:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T21:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=452"},"modified":"2026-05-09T21:42:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T21:42:00","slug":"peak-tv-is-behind-us-uk-developers-pivot-from-building-studios-to-datacentres-amid-ai-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=452","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Peak TV is behind us\u2019: UK developers pivot from building studios to datacentres amid AI boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ambitious plans are being scaled back \u2013 but film and TV industry point to big existing investments in British production<\/p>\n<p>Hollywood blockbusters including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2026\/jan\/30\/first-stills-sam-mendes-four-part-beatles-film-leaked-in-liverpool?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other\">eagerly anticipated Beatles biopics<\/a> and big-budget TV series such as Bridgerton have been keeping the UK\u2019s film and TV studio facilities packed.<\/p>\n<p>But as the streaming wars recalibrate having passed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2023\/jun\/05\/the-end-of-peak-television-has-the-era-of-prestige-tv-just-ground-to-a-halt\">\u201cpeak TV\u201d<\/a>, a slowdown in the content arms race is prompting property developers to switch to building datacentres amid the AI boom.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2026\/may\/09\/tv-film-studios-developers-datacentres-ai-boom\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ambitious plans are being scaled back \u2013 but film and TV industry point to big existing investments in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}