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Lord Mackinlay of Richborough (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 23 April 2025

Debate

Artificial Intelligence: Emissions

Contribution

My Lords, the House will note my directorship of the Global Warming Policy Foundation. For the diminishing number of people who still believe that diminishing Britain’s 0.8% of global CO2 still further is an undertaking worth having, I bring good news: the amount of CO2 to be released from UK data centres will be close to zero because, with energy prices in the UK some three times higher than in the US, double the price of much of mainland Europe, notably Switzerland, where this is a developing industry, I very much doubt we will have any—or we will have very few—energy-hungry AI centres. Could the Minister give some assurance that we will not simply be reliant on expensive unreliables into the future, and pursue a sensible energy policy for the UK?

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