{"id":25286,"date":"2026-10-06T10:37:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T08:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/06\/drax-datacentre-could-create-nearly-twice-the-yearly-emissions-of-all-gatwick-flights\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T10:37:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T08:37:43","slug":"drax-datacentre-could-create-nearly-twice-the-yearly-emissions-of-all-gatwick-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/06\/drax-datacentre-could-create-nearly-twice-the-yearly-emissions-of-all-gatwick-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Campaign group\u2019s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year<\/p>\n<p>Drax\u2019s planned datacentre could produce nearly double the emissions of all flights out of Gatwick airport each year by burning 4.9m tonnes of wood annually, an analysis has shown.<\/p>\n<p>Campaigners say this would make it \u201cone of the dirtiest datacentres out there\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2026\/oct\/06\/drax-datacentre-yearly-co2-emissions-gatwick-flights-analysis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6282bd3e467b44bb4e6d6acf9bb2fe1122939072\/42_0_7560_6048\/master\/7560.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9834f4738f40ac6ed56e57d2579b9873\" title=\"Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights\" \/>Campaign group\u2019s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year<br \/>\nDrax\u2019s planned datacentre could produce nearly double the emissions of all flights out of Gatwick airport each year by burning 4.9m tonnes of wood annually, an analysis has shown.<br \/>\nCampaigners say this would make it \u201cone of the dirtiest datacentres out there\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaign group\u2019s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year Drax\u2019s planned datacentre could produce nearly double the emissions of all flights out of Gatwick airport each year by burning 4.9m tonnes of wood annually, an analysis has shown. Campaigners say this would make it \u201cone &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/06\/drax-datacentre-could-create-nearly-twice-the-yearly-emissions-of-all-gatwick-flights\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25287,"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\/25286"}],"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=25286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}