UK's New Data Centre Covenant Aims to Fix Grid Queues but May Raise Build Costs
ersatzben · x · 2026-10-30
The UK government's new Data Centre Covenant aims to tackle the country's long-standing grid connection problems, letting data centres come online faster. But analysis argues the policy will make data centre construction more expensive and could well backfire—potentially leaving the UK behind in the AI race, where it needs to build many more data centres very quickly to secure its stake.
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