Energy
Drax Explores Options to Sell Biomass Power to UK Data Center
- Growing demand for 24/7 power presents ‘potential opportunity’
- Company also publishes trading update; shares jump in London
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Drax Group Plc is exploring options to sell power to a data-center provider in the UK, guaranteeing income for its biomass-fired plant.
Electricity use by data hubs in Britain will jump sixfold in the next 10 years as a boom in artificial intelligence requires increased computing heft, National Grid Plc said earlier this year. Drax’s plan would “co-locate” a data center with biomass generation, avoiding reliance on a power grid already under strain.