Achieving climate targets is already challenging enough
The only way that allowing this huge expansion could fail to increase emissions would be either if we already have enough year-round renewable energy for all needs , or if the money that the State receives from hosting them is being ring-fenced to create new renewable capacity that wouldn’t otherwise have existed.
Of course, data centres have a huge part to play in much of modern life, and they can, for example, enable us to work in ways that reduce emissions. But at a time when energy stability is by no means a given, and when achieving climate targets is already challenging enough, it seems baffling that our Government chooses to be such an extreme outlier in this respect. – Yours, etc,
Johnny McEntee: The Project 2025 adviser and former college quarterback who worked his way into Trump’s inner-circleSinéad O’Connor waxwork: ‘You have to get the proportions right. That’s not easy, especially with ladies’Sir, – The world demand for data storage is growing exponentially and at some point will outstrip our ability to generate the necessary power, efficiency improvements not withstanding.
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