{"id":22871,"date":"2026-04-26T08:37:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T06:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/uk-departments-at-odds-over-energy-demands-of-ai-datacentres\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:37:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T06:37:28","slug":"uk-departments-at-odds-over-energy-demands-of-ai-datacentres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/uk-departments-at-odds-over-energy-demands-of-ai-datacentres\/","title":{"rendered":"UK departments at odds over energy demands of AI datacentres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Discrepancy in forecasts raises questions over government planning for net zero<\/p>\n<p>One vision of the UK\u2019s future involves a decarbonised economy powered by clean, renewable energy. Another involves making the UK an AI superpower.<\/p>\n<p>The government departments responsible for these two visions do not appear to have agreed on their numbers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/apr\/26\/uk-departments-at-odds-over-energy-demands-of-ai-datacentres\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/de480a6a5dd62313de113f77399f46e9208b8c16\/2791_939_5367_4294\/master\/5367.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a17fa9d0efeffea79d001d06f77754a0\" title=\"UK departments at odds over energy demands of AI datacentres\" \/>Discrepancy in forecasts raises questions over government planning for net zero<br \/>\nOne vision of the UK\u2019s future involves a decarbonised economy powered by clean, renewable energy. Another involves making the UK an AI superpower.<br \/>\nThe government departments responsible for these two visions do not appear to have agreed on their numbers. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discrepancy in forecasts raises questions over government planning for net zero One vision of the UK\u2019s future involves a decarbonised economy powered by clean, renewable energy. Another involves making the UK an AI superpower. The government departments responsible for these two visions do not appear to have agreed on their numbers. Continue reading&#8230; Discrepancy in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/uk-departments-at-odds-over-energy-demands-of-ai-datacentres\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK departments at odds over energy demands of AI datacentres<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22872,"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\/22871"}],"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=22871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}