— ‘In both cases, they appear to have compared one year of the proposed datacentre’s emissions with the UK’s entire five-year carbon budget … All three developments are classed as having a “minor adverse” impact on the UK’s overall climate goals. However, the Thurrock datacentre will produce more emissions than an international airport, and Elsham Tech Park’s peak emissions will [be] just short of the 1.2m tonnes of carbon emissions of all the UK’s domestic flights.’ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/09/google-developers-significantly-misstate-carbon-emissions-of-proposed-uk-datacentres