Three environmental groups will seek leave in the High Court to lodge an appeal for a judicial review of a major decision about data centres made by the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU) last December.
The decision allowed new data centres to go ahead and to be connected to the electricity grid, provided, after six years, they themselves start supplying as much electricity into the grid as they use for their daily operations.
A further strict condition is that 80% of the electricity supplied by data centres must come from renewable energy sources like wind and solar farms.
However, the remaining 20% of power that they supply can come from gas or…