UK AI Buildout Turns Net Zero Into an Accounting Fight

What this establishes institutionally is simple: AI capacity can no longer be treated as an industrial upgrade outside climate accounting. Once the government accepts that data-centre emissions could be far larger than prior planning assumed, each approval becomes a decision about which public target absorbs the load. The winners are developers with projects ready to plug in; the losers are ministers who promised clean growth without saying which grid, land, and carbon budgets would carry it.