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Carbon Emissions: Data Centres

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of electricity demand from AI-related data centres on his net zero targets.

answeredDr Ellie ChownsDepartment for Energy Security and Net Zero

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Answering body
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Tabled
17 Dec 2025
Target answer date
5 Jan 2026
Answer
9 Jan 2026 · 23 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 17 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of electricity demand from AI-related data centres on his net zero targets.

  2. 5 Jan 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 9 Jan 2026

    Answer published

    The Government received independent advice from NESO on achieving clean power by 2030, published in November 2024. This allowed for a fourfold increase in data centre electricity demand between then and 2030, within an overall conclusion that clean power ...

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