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Datacenter developers in the UK are turning to gas for power generation amid lengthy wait times for a connection to the electricity grid.

The British government unveiled plans at the start of the year to ramp up the country's AI development , allowing for the building of lots of additional infrastructure – datacenters in particular – including the setting up of so-called "AI Growth Zones".

However, the UK's moribund planning process sometimes leads to waiting years for new projects to get connected up to the electricity grid. The chief executive of Segro, a major commercial property developer, said last year that it sometimes takes "a number of years" for local substations to be upgraded in order to increase grid capacity.

Now it appears that some developers are tired of the wait and ar