questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that inward investment agreements for new datacentres include binding requirements on energy efficiency, renewable power sourcing and heat‑recovery obligations; and whether she has made an assessment of the potential environmental risks arising from the absence of a single cross‑government standard for datacentre sustainability.
answerText: The government is committed to ensuring that new data centres and AI infrastructure are developed responsibly, with due consideration of environmental impacts.UK data and AI infrastructure is subject to the UK’s environmental and planning frameworks, whic...
heading: Data Centres: Foreign Investment in UK