A London council has rejected newspaper claims that it would not be possible to build housing in parts of west London because of power supply constraints as “scaremongering”.
The Financial Times article stated that Hillingdon, Hounslow and Ealing Councils would not be able to build new homes for at least a decade. It claimed that this was because the local electricity supply grid was at capacity.
The article suggested that the reason for the constraints was the popularity of data centres locally. The area neighbours internet ‘superhighway’ cables that run along the M4 and into the Atlantic Ocean. It has earned it the name “Silicon Corridor”. But one data centre consumes the same amount of power as up to 10,000 homes.
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