{"id":23127,"date":"2026-05-18T13:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T11:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/more-than-100-uk-datacentres-plan-to-burn-gas-to-generate-electricity\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T13:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T11:37:14","slug":"more-than-100-uk-datacentres-plan-to-burn-gas-to-generate-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/more-than-100-uk-datacentres-plan-to-burn-gas-to-generate-electricity\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 100 UK datacentres plan to burn gas to generate electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Requests for gas connections by operators amount to more than 15 terawatt hours per year, endangering climate targets<\/p>\n<p>More than 100 new datacentres in the UK plan to burn gas to generate electricity, some potentially doing so permanently.<\/p>\n<p>British officials say this is an inevitable consequence of a years-long wait to connect to the National Grid, and raises an \u201cinteresting question\u201d about the UK\u2019s climate targets.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/may\/18\/uk-datacentres-plan-to-burn-gas-to-generate-electricity\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/87e18670ff742ef16d4bfc6e92462d6a794595bc\/465_0_4653_3722\/master\/4653.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=158533b5af6a9f01c5d2cb05c0522981\" title=\"More than 100 UK datacentres plan to burn gas to generate electricity\" \/>Requests for gas connections by operators amount to more than 15 terawatt hours per year, endangering climate targets<br \/>\nMore than 100 new datacentres in the UK plan to burn gas to generate electricity, some potentially doing so permanently.<br \/>\nBritish officials say this is an inevitable consequence of a years-long wait to connect to the National Grid, and raises an \u201cinteresting question\u201d about the UK\u2019s climate targets. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Requests for gas connections by operators amount to more than 15 terawatt hours per year, endangering climate targets More than 100 new datacentres in the UK plan to burn gas to generate electricity, some potentially doing so permanently. British officials say this is an inevitable consequence of a years-long wait to connect to the National &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/more-than-100-uk-datacentres-plan-to-burn-gas-to-generate-electricity\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More than 100 UK datacentres plan to burn gas to generate electricity<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23128,"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\/23127"}],"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=23127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}