aceUK’s most polluting power plant could power country’s largest AI datacentre
Britain’s most polluting power plant could soon power the country’s largest datacentre under a £20bn deal to build AI infrastructure on the site of the Drax power plant in North Yorkshire. The power plant’s FTSE 250 owner has struck a deal with the infrastructure investor Brookfield and and the AI infrastructure platform Radiant to develop a datacentre with an eventual capacity of more than 1 gigawatt that could begin operations by early 2028. In the initial phase of the project Drax will provide the datacentre…
A rush of datacentre building on a congested UK grid with binding climate targets raises questions about relying on expensive, polluting off-grid gas generation.
Direct power supply to the datacentre depends on regulatory approvals not yet secured, and the article says questions remain over how datacentres could be powered without polluting gas generation.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2026-11-03
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