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![What about renewables?
While more ambitious expansion of renewables capacity in the future can reduce the scale of these impacts, in most scenarios modelled in the report, it’s not sufficient to meaningfully offset the electricity price increases associated with data centre growth. This is because of the projected rises in data centre energy demand over the next decade. Furthermore, the rapid growth of data centres, consuming almost all new renewables capacity in recent years [5], has reinforced a dependence on fossil gas power.
Recent warning from the Climate Change Advisory Council, a Government appointed independent advisory body, echoes these findings - they said that data centres’ colossal energy demand is “cannibalising” renewable energy, slowing down electrification and clean energy for everyone else.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:66lbtw2porscqpmair6mir37/bafkreifnkn4ubuvfu2mohznlg6w2qfwo4w7mgufb4cghvdv3v6neamegaa)
