Written Question·Department for Energy Security and Net Zero·UIN 18224
Energy: Artificial Intelligence
Tabled: 13 July 2026
Answered: 21 July 2026
Question
Pippa Heylings
Liberal Democrat — South Cambridgeshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what comparative assessment his Department has made of the computational and energy requirements of (a) the machine learning and optimisation techniques used for electricity network managemen
Answer
Martin McCluskeyMachine learning is not currently used for electricity grid management. Any future energy required will depend on how machine learning will be used. The UK Government contracted Europe Economics to research whether future electricity demand from AI data c...
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