Ofgem’s High-Stakes Gambit: Overhauling Great Britain’s Grid Queue to Weed Out Speculative Data Centers
By Nathan Eddy Berlin, Germany Executive Overview Great Britain’s energy landscape is facing an unprecedented reckoning. Driven by the explosive growth of artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and massive hyper-scale data architectures, contracted demand offers for the nation’s electrical grid skyrocketed from 41 gigawatts (GW) in November 2024 to an astonishing 125 GW by June 2025….