Government was fooled by lobby when building data centers | Inland

WOB procedure: consequences for the power grid were not thought through

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The explosive growth in the number of data centers in our country has been fully stimulated in recent years by an active international lobby of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate (EZK). This is evident from internal documents. Now that the energy-guzzling centers are there and other companies threaten to be driven off the power grid, governments are scratching their heads. “National direction must be returned,” it sounds from the House of Representatives, where parties want to put a brake on developments.