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Data Centres: Planning

Asked by Nick TimothyConservativeDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled Answered 5 February 2025UIN 26897

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of building new data centres on (a) sites of decommissioned power stations and (b) other brownfield sites.

Answered by Michael Shanks

The suitability of any site for a data centre depends on a number of factors including grid capacity, state of grid infrastructure and availability of data connectivity. Future AI Growth Zones will be selected taking into account these factors.

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