United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 8370
Data Centres: Electricity
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9 June 2026
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17 June 2026 · Answer
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To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what proportion of electricity demand connection applications in the National Energy System Operator queue are attributable to data centres.
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9 June 2026
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what proportion of electricity demand connection applications in the National Energy System Operator queue are attributable to data centres.
Source: Commons
17 June 2026
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Data supplied by the National Energy System Operator shows around 60GW of capacity allocated to data centres in the transmission queue. This represents around three quarters of the total demand connections queue, at transmission level. Government recently...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2026-06-09/8370
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1914360
- uk · wq-1914360 · source updated 17 June 2026