{"id":22085,"date":"2026-02-23T16:37:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/new-datacentres-risk-doubling-uk-electricity-use-regulator-says\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T16:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:37:25","slug":"new-datacentres-risk-doubling-uk-electricity-use-regulator-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/new-datacentres-risk-doubling-uk-electricity-use-regulator-says\/","title":{"rendered":"New datacentres risk doubling UK electricity use, regulator says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ofgem says about 140 proposed projects, driven by AI use, could require more power than current peak demand<\/p>\n<p>The amount of power being sought by new datacentre projects in the UK would exceed the country\u2019s current peak electricity consumption, according to an industry watchdog.<\/p>\n<p>Ofgem said about 140 proposed datacentre schemes, driven by use of artificial intelligence, could require 50 gigawatts of electricity \u2013 5GW more than the country\u2019s current peak demand.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/feb\/23\/new-datacentres-risk-doubling-uk-electricity-use-ofgem-peak-demand\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ec63cb16f445d0edfab5627224295056e3e39a62\/1300_0_6501_5203\/master\/6501.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=88c88d9ab85239519a320cf045b1217d\" title=\"New datacentres risk doubling UK electricity use, regulator says\" \/>Ofgem says about 140 proposed projects, driven by AI use, could require more power than current peak demand<br \/>\nThe amount of power being sought by new datacentre projects in the UK would exceed the country\u2019s current peak electricity consumption, according to an industry watchdog.<br \/>\nOfgem said about 140 proposed datacentre schemes, driven by use of artificial intelligence, could require 50 gigawatts of electricity \u2013 5GW more than the country\u2019s current peak demand. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ofgem says about 140 proposed projects, driven by AI use, could require more power than current peak demand The amount of power being sought by new datacentre projects in the UK would exceed the country\u2019s current peak electricity consumption, according to an industry watchdog. Ofgem said about 140 proposed datacentre schemes, driven by use of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/new-datacentres-risk-doubling-uk-electricity-use-regulator-says\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New datacentres risk doubling UK electricity use, regulator says<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22086,"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\/22085"}],"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=22085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}