The UK Power Grid Has a Phantom Data Center Problem
AI disclosure
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The UK’s energy regulator is using a variety of tricks to keep speculative data center projects from plugging into the power grid. The country’s AI ambitions hang in the balance.
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AI datacentres use massive amounts of electricity to power servers, facility systems & cooling. https://t.co/Mlg5xGmmJf There are 315 datacentres queued to connect to the UK’s electricity grid. That's 73GW of demand, almost double the peak winter energy demand for the entire UK.…
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