Datacenter electricity demands could curtail London housing development

Datacenters might be the lifeblood of the modern digital economy, but for housing developers in some parts of London they could curtail building plans for the next 13 years.
According to a report in today’s Financial Times, developers on the western side of the U.K. capital may be prevented from working on larger multi-tenant properties due to current strains on the electricity grid caused by nearby datacenters.
The affected areas, which include the boroughs of Ealing, Hounslow, and Hillingdon, are less than 13 miles away from the town of Slough, which has emerged as a major datacenter h

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