| Heading: |
Data Centres: Planning |
| Question ID: |
1759295 |
| UIN: |
26896 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-01-28 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5062 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Nick Timothy
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Nick Timothy
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of his policies on the construction of off-grid infrastructure for new data centres, including on (a) gas-fired power plants, (b) nuclear p |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-02-05 |
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false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4998 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Michael Shanks
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| Answering Member handle: |
mgshanks
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@mgshanks
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| Answer text: |
Data centres are normally connected to the transmission and distribution grid rather than off-grid connection as this gives them resilience to planned and forced outages of an individual power source. Consequently, my Department has not made any assessmen... |
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| Answering body ID: |
215 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero |
| Tweeted: |
true |