Tag: electricity

Data centres are putting pressure on London’s power

City Hall and Tower Bridge at Night, London

After it was believed that the cloud and data centres were the next big thing, London appears to be getting strangled by them.

Three West London boroughs have told building developers that they must limit their plans because there is not enough power in the grid. This might seem odd given the huge amounts of money power companies are charging people, one would expect they would have sunk a bit of cash into infrastructure.