{"id":20085,"date":"2025-09-15T12:37:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T10:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/15\/googles-huge-new-essex-datacentre-to-emit-570000-tonnes-of-co2-a-year\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T12:37:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T10:37:43","slug":"googles-huge-new-essex-datacentre-to-emit-570000-tonnes-of-co2-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/15\/googles-huge-new-essex-datacentre-to-emit-570000-tonnes-of-co2-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s huge new Essex datacentre to emit 570,000 tonnes of CO2 a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Exclusive:<\/strong> Planning documents show impact of Thurrock \u2018hyperscale\u2019 unit as UK attempts to ramp up AI capacity<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2025\/sep\/15\/uk-house-prices-drop-tax-budget-rents-financial-markets-business-live-news-updates#top-of-blog\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A new Google datacentre in Essex is expected to emit more than half a million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year , equivalent to about 500 short-haul flights a week, planning documents show.<\/p>\n<p>Spread across 52 hectares (128 acres), the Thurrock \u201chyperscale datacentre\u201d will be part of a wave of mammoth computer and AI power houses if it secures planning consent.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/sep\/15\/google-datacentre-kent-co2-thurrock-uk-ai\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/145872085cf8274052333d2a8521f836b6747bba\/315_0_3383_2706\/master\/3383.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d81e556e122c44e2957cc342d953c6e8\" title=\"Google\u2019s huge new Essex datacentre to emit 570,000 tonnes of CO2 a year\" \/>Exclusive: Planning documents show impact of Thurrock \u2018hyperscale\u2019 unit as UK attempts to ramp up AI capacity<br \/>\nBusiness live \u2013 latest updates<br \/>\nA new Google datacentre in Essex is expected to emit more than half a million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year , equivalent to about 500 short-haul flights a week, planning documents show.<br \/>\nSpread across 52 hectares (128 acres), the Thurrock \u201chyperscale datacentre\u201d will be part of a wave of mammoth computer and AI power houses if it secures planning consent. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Planning documents show impact of Thurrock \u2018hyperscale\u2019 unit as UK attempts to ramp up AI capacity Business live \u2013 latest updates A new Google datacentre in Essex is expected to emit more than half a million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year , equivalent to about 500 short-haul flights a week, planning documents show. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/15\/googles-huge-new-essex-datacentre-to-emit-570000-tonnes-of-co2-a-year\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google\u2019s huge new Essex datacentre to emit 570,000 tonnes of CO2 a year<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20085"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}