
Richard Gwilliam
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Sep 8, 2026
It’s rich in cloud data centers, but can the U.K. compete for AI assets?
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Alex WheelerHOST
First of all, it'd be great to get your thoughts on how you see the expected change in UK electricity demand after what's been quite a stable period, what you see as the key drivers and what this means for the system as a whole.

Richard GwilliamGUEST
You're right to sort of flag this change that we've gone through because For the last two decades, we haven't really seen a huge amount of growth in electricity demand.

Richard GwilliamGUEST
I think across the country, we've seen relatively large levels of deindustrialization, increased in energy efficiency, And then, you know, electrical appliances have also become more efficient.

Richard GwilliamGUEST
And if I think back to my time in the sector, I've been with Drax now for coming up eight years, but I think back to 2010, I worked at National Grid.

Richard GwilliamGUEST
And at that point, you know, my job was to look at how we rewire the country on the anticipation that we were going to electrify the economy.

Richard GwilliamGUEST
It feels like that's something we've been talking about for a very long time.
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Alex WheelerHOST
On the demand point, how supportive do you think the UK government is to the evolution of that system? What have they done so far in supporting that sort of AI data centre deployment?