Data Center Expansion Delays Housing Construction in West London
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Summary
A London Assembly report reveals that the rapid expansion of energy-intensive data centers in West London is delaying the construction of new homes, exacerbating the city's housing crisis. Data centers, which require massive amounts of electricity from the National Grid, are competing with housing developments for limited power infrastructure capacity, leading to temporary halts in residential construction projects.
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Data centres are giant warehouses full of powerful computers used to run digital services, such as streaming and artificial intelligence.
However, they require masses of electricity from the National Grid to keep running.
The London Assembly found the growth of new data centres temporarily halted building some houses in 2022.
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