Question follow-through · 96026
Energy Supply: Data Centres
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of electricity demand from AI-related data centres on electricity prices.
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- Answering body
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Tabled
- 1 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 9 Dec 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of electricity demand from AI-related data centres on electricity prices.
3 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Government is committed to ensuring electricity networks can meet rising electricity demand, including from data centres, and to protecting consumer bills. Locating data centres where there is excess renewable generation could lower constraint costs, ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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