questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to Answer of 19 June 2026 to Question 8970, how projected demand from AI-capable data centres has been incorporated into national electricity system planning.
answerText: The Department’s published energy demand forecasts do not separately identify or report electricity demand from data centres. Instead, data centres are included within broader economic and sectoral electricity demand projections, including the wider compu...
heading: Energy: Data Centres