Tech bosses in scramble for gas amid AI blitz

Ed Miliband was told by Future Energy Networks in a letter that the surge in interest in gas was due to 15-year wait times - Chris J Ratcliffe/Bloomberg Tech bosses are scrambling to hook their data centres to Britain’s gas network because of delays connecting to the electricity grid, energy suppliers have warned. Gas networks report a rising number of connection requests from energy-hungry data centres amid a surge in AI demands, with 86 enquiries received in the last year alone. In a letter to Ed Mi ...