{"id":448,"date":"2026-05-09T21:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T21:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=448"},"modified":"2026-05-09T21:42:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T21:42:00","slug":"google-developers-significantly-misstate-carbon-emissions-of-proposed-uk-datacentres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=448","title":{"rendered":"Google developers significantly misstate carbon emissions of proposed UK datacentres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emissions understated by factor of five in Essex plans for tech giant, while Greystoke\u2019s Lincolnshire plans show similar error<\/p>\n<p>Developers working for Google have significantly misstated how much carbon two proposed AI datacentres will contribute to the UK\u2019s total emissions in planning documents reviewed by the Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>The tech company wants to build two huge datacentres \u2013 one 52-hectare (130 acre) project in Thurrock and another at an airfield in North Weald, both in Essex. To do so, developers are required to submit planning documents calculating how much carbon these projects will emit as a proportion of the UK\u2019s total carbon footprint.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/may\/09\/google-developers-significantly-misstate-carbon-emissions-of-proposed-uk-datacentres\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emissions understated by factor of five in Essex plans for tech giant, while Greystoke\u2019s Lincolnshire plans show similar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}