More than 100 new datacentres in the UK plan to burn gas to generate electricity, some potentially doing so permanently. British officials say this is an inevitable consequence of a years long wait to connect to the National Grid, and raises an “interesting question” about the UKs climate targets. “Theres 100GW of datacentre projects in the queue,” said Stuart Okin, the director of cyber regulation and AI at Ofgem. “Clearly thats not all going to be able to connect [to the grid]. If a project...
