@hzulla if you bother to read the document in questionhttps://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/164766/html/you learn two things:The UK seems to be the worst NIMBY place on the planet, as no new resovoirs are being builtwhich leads to disasters, like the claim that a new cancer hospital can't be built due to a shortage of waterThe shortfall due to datacenters is a projection, that assumes the UK will treble DC capacity, and that on the hottest days there will be shortfall that is not that big a deal, if there was no NIMBYism

@hzulla the "Solar Power" graph shows energy, not power, at least according to the shown unit