Data Centres: Electricity
Commons · Question 8370 · Tabled 9 Jun 2026 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero · Official record
Answered 17 Jun 2026
Question
Asked by Euan Stainbank
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what proportion of electricity demand connection applications in the National Energy System Operator queue are attributable to data centres.
Answer
Answered by Michael Shanks, 17 Jun 2026
Data supplied by the National Energy System Operator shows around 60GW of capacity allocated to data centres in the transmission queue. This represents around three quarters of the total demand connections queue, at transmission level. Government recently...