tulip in our rivers

[vetran]

That's the kiddy. Data centres on the M4 corridor IIRC.

Do we want more storage for YouTube videos or more houses?

It's also hard to add more inputs to the electricity system because of the way connections are managed. You get connected in the order your 'application' was put in, not when your project is ready to launch. So, company A puts in an application to connect their project first and company B puts theirs in a while later. A few years down the line, company B is ready to go but can't because company A is 10 years away from launch.

That's a gross oversimplification, of course

https://www.theguardian.com/business...s-ofgem-energy

Actually Data centres are the least of our problems. Demand is mainly static and they tend to have dedicated supplies using renewables and back up batteries. Also the move to net zero is pushing them to green alternatives.

https://news.microsoft.com/europe/fe...nergy-sources/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/bl...s-datacenters/

Load shedding data centres is a thing.