How the Data Centre Industry is Tackling its Energy Problem

Energydigital · Jun 01, 2026 · 727 words · By James Darley

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The article reports on a panel discussion from the Data Centre LIVE: The London Summit regarding the energy challenges facing the data center industry due to AI demand. Panelists discuss infrastructure bottlenecks in the UK, supply chain vulnerabilities, and the difficulty of balancing industry growth with net-zero sustainability goals.

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What happened

How the Data Centre Industry is Tackling its Energy Problem The data centre industry is changing faster than at any point in its history.

Why it matters

And nowhere is that pressure felt more acutely than in the battle to secure enough energy to keep pace with soaring AI demand.

Common ground

This subject was a central feature of the ‘AI Data Centre Debate’, one of the standout sessions at Data Centre LIVE: The London Summit, held in London on 19-20 May.

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 7 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Data Centre LIVE: The London Summit, held in London on 19-20 May.”

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The event is confirmed by Datacentremagazine and Energy Digital as taking place on 19-20 May in London.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A data center is a facility used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems. Data centers are critical infrastructure for the storage and proce…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_center

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) has seven subject-based environmental data centres (EDCs) to store and distribute data from its own research programes and data that are of general use …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERC_Data_Centres

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Data-centric computing is an emerging concept that has relevance in information architecture and data center design. It describes an information system where data is stored independently of the applic…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-centric_computing

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Claim 2: “Semiconductor production – now accounting for around half of the industry's structural requirements – depends on helium, 40% of which comes from Qatar”

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The claim states 40% of helium comes from Qatar, but web search results provide conflicting figures: one source mentions 30% global supply, another says 30-33%, and another mentions 40% of global helium is offline (without specifying the total share from Qatar specifically as 40%).

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Natives of the Arabian Peninsula, many Qataris (Arabic: قطريون) are descended from a number of migratory Arab tribes that came to Qatar in the 18th century from mainly the neighboring areas of Nejd an…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Qatar

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Qatar, officially the State of Qatar, is a country in West Asia. It occupies the Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it shares its sole land border w…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Qatar is an Islamic state with several religious minorities, like other Arab Persian Gulf countries, which have massive non-citizen migrant worker populations. The official state religion is Sunni Isl…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Qatar

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Claim 3: “With the Strait of Hormuz closed, that supply chain is under strain.”

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The closure of the Strait of Hormuz is confirmed by multiple news sources (BBC, Al Jazeera, Energydigital) and specifically documented in Wikipedia under the '2026 Strait of Hormuz campaign'.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 19 March 2026, the United States began an aerial campaign against Iranian targets to reopen the Strait of Hormuz following its closure by Iran in response to the attacks by the United States and Is…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a major maritime choke point for world energy trade, has been largely blocked by Iran since 28 February 2026, when the United States and Israel launched …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Strait of Hormuz () is a waterway between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. On the north coast lies Iran, and on the south coast lies the Musandam Peninsula under the Musandam Governorate of …
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Claim 4: “NTT has set for itself: net zero across its data centres by 2030, offices by 2035 and supply chain by 2040.”

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The specific net zero targets (data centres 2030, offices 2035, supply chain 2040) are confirmed by Energy Digital, Procurement Magazine, and Mirage News.

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web search NEUTRAL — NTT has committed to achieving net zero emissions across its data centre operations by 2030 and across its value chain by 2040.
https://www.miragenews.com/ntt-and-macquarie-asset-managemen…

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web search NEUTRAL — Alex outlined the targets NTT has set for itself: net zero across its data centres by 2030, offices by 2035 and supply chain by 2040. But he stopped short of suggesting the industry had found easy ans…
https://energydigital.com/news/ai-power-politics-the-debates…

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web search NEUTRAL — Alex notes that NTT has set ambitious targets of net zero within its data centres by 2030, across offices by 2035 and through its supply chain by 2040. This timeline could influence procurement specif…
https://procurementmag.com/news/data-centre-live-procurement…

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Claim 5: “some governments – Ireland being a notable example – have moved to regulate data centre emissions”

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The provided evidence contains general definitions of government and US government information, but nothing regarding Ireland's regulation of data centre emissions.

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web search NEUTRAL — A government is the system or group of people governing a country and its administrative divisions which is generally called as a state and as such the term is a metonym for it in governmental topics.…
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web search NEUTRAL — The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government or U.S. government) [a] is the national government of the United States. [2] The United States federal government is composed of th…
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web search NEUTRAL — Find government benefits, services, agencies, and information at USA.gov. Contact elected officials. Learn about passports, Social Security, taxes, and more.
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Claim 6: “the UK does not have a shortage of generation capacity.”

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The provided evidence consists of general Wikipedia entries about the UK and unrelated search results for United Airlines; there is no evidence regarding electricity generation capacity.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The next United Kingdom general election is scheduled to be held no later than 15 August 2029. It will determine the composition of the House of Commons, which determines the government of the United …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, and may also legislate for the Crown Dependencies and the British Over…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland. It compr…
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Claim 7: “The panel brought together Lonnie Salmon, Senior Director at Jabil, Jean-François Berche, CTO at GreenScale, Alex Bennett, CEO of NTT Global Data Centers, and Jamie Allen, Head of Site Selection at Iron Mountain”

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Multiple independent sources (Datacentremagazine, Sustainability Magazine, AI Magazine) confirm the presence of Lonnie Salmon, Jean-François Berche, Alex Bennett, and Jamie Allen on the panel.

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web search NEUTRAL — Leaders from GreenScale, NTT, Iron Mountain & Jabil gathered at Data Centre LIVE in May to debate the sector's hottest talking points, from energy to water. The data centre sector has rarely moved at …
https://sustainabilitymag.com/news/ai-power-politics-the-deb…

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web search NEUTRAL — Leaders from Jabil, GreenScale, NTT Data and Iron Mountain gathered at Data Centre LIVE to discuss AI's impact on how data centres are built and powered.
https://aimagazine.com/news/data-centre-live-debating-ai-and…

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web search NEUTRAL — The panel will feature insights from Lonnie Salmon, Senior Director of Supply Chain & Procurement Services at Jabil, Jamie Allen, Vice President of Site Acquisition & Development at STACK Infrastructu…
https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/indust…

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