Lisa Ryan
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I think the UN put it very well where they say that demand is outstripping infrastructure.
I don't have the wording in front of me, but it more or less shows that it's running a little bit out of control compared to the investment that we're making in our infrastructure and our supply.
So I think until you have caught up...
The prudent approach would be to just slow down, halt, maybe don't let another dozen data centres come online until we have settled that we try to meet our renewable energy targets and our CO2 emissions targets first.
And then we can see about more data centres coming on and maybe encourage them to go elsewhere in Europe.
I know that's contrary to, I suppose, most economic policy.
But at the same time, we do have a problem if we don't have enough electricity to meet them.
And that could ruin our reputation as well in the long run.