Data Centres: Planning
Commons · Question 26896 · Tabled 28 Jan 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero · Official record
Answered 5 Feb 2025
Question
Asked by Nick Timothy
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of his policies on the construction of off-grid infrastructure for new data centres, including on (a) gas-fired power plants, (b) nuclear p
Answer
Answered by Michael Shanks, 5 Feb 2025
Data centres are normally connected to the transmission and distribution grid rather than off-grid connection as this gives them resilience to planned and forced outages of an individual power source. Consequently, my Department has not made any assessmen...