{
  "id": 14551,
  "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jul/29/datacentre-projects-fees-grid-access-connection-queue-ofgem",
  "title": "Datacentre projects face fees for grid access to ease connection queue, Ofgem says",
  "summary": "Energy regulator’s plan would mean upfront fees or financial security via letters of credit, bonds or cash deposits Datacentre projects in Britain will be forced to pay hundreds of millions of pounds to plug into the power grid under proposals to tackle a growing electricity connection logjam . Ofgem, the sector watchdog, said it was taking action to discourage “speculative” datacentre projects from causing unnecessary delays to the grid connection queue, which includes hospitals, schools and ho",
  "authors": "Dan Milmo",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "regulation,children-education,environment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "uk",
  "published_at": "2026-07-29T07:42:01.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-30T05:10:24.387Z",
  "source_slug": "guardian-ai",
  "source_name": "The Guardian",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.theguardian.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/14551",
  "original_url": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jul/29/datacentre-projects-fees-grid-access-connection-queue-ofgem",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}