London's £14.7B AI Data Centre's Annual Carbon Emissions Could Equal 8,480 New York Flights

The North Ockendon campus would draw enough power to supply over 1M UK homes at half load. (Credit: UK Government Website)

One of Britain's largest planned data centres would generate carbon emissions its own developer concedes are incompatible with the UK's net zero targets.

Planning papers for the £14.7B ($20.1B) East Havering Data Centre Campus estimate the site would emit 1.2M tonnes of carbon dioxide a year once fully running, roughly the same as 8,480 long-haul flights from London to New York.