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DSIT and DESNZ announced that the AI Energy Council, co-chaired by the Technology and Energy Secretaries, held its first meeting on 8 April 2025, expected to advise on energy efficiency and sustainability in AI and data-centre infrastructure. Copy claim link
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Date 2025-04-08 · announcement Scope and limits Records the government’s statement of the first meeting, as decision 4 directs; the council is advisory and its minutes are not recorded here.
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AI Energy Council to ensure UK’s energy infrastructure ready for AI revolution ↗ Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (GOV.UK) · 2025-04-08
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Source excerpt “for the first meeting of the UK’s new AI Energy Council” Location in source paragraph beginning “Industry heavyweights from the energy and…”
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Source details and check notes Authors Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (GOV.UK) Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 3953f76baf0ac5824d5397ff501a0d6801074c95821f46dbae9598dc5401bcfe). GOV.UK news story as served on 2026-10-28; text refers to 'today (8 April)'. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 a3c619ddcc0874ac07221e08f49e26c34c0e5cecb96a266156f4623eb6dd10f2). Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-28 Language English (en) Attribution Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (GOV.UK), “AI Energy Council to ensure UK’s energy infrastructure ready for AI revolution”, 2025-04-08. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The quotation (11 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 and again at admission on 2026-10-30, in a fresh retrieval (SHA-256 a3c619ddcc0874ac07221e08f49e26c34c0e5cecb96a266156f4623eb6dd10f2; the bytes differ from the pack’s retrieval). Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
AI Energy Council to ensure UK’s energy infrastructure ready for AI revolution ↗ Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (GOV.UK) · 2025-04-08
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Source excerpt “Co-chaired by the Technology and Energy Secretaries” Location in source paragraph beginning “Co-chaired by the Technology and Energy…”
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Source details and check notes Authors Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (GOV.UK) Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 3953f76baf0ac5824d5397ff501a0d6801074c95821f46dbae9598dc5401bcfe). GOV.UK news story as served on 2026-10-28; text refers to 'today (8 April)'. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 a3c619ddcc0874ac07221e08f49e26c34c0e5cecb96a266156f4623eb6dd10f2). Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-28 Language English (en) Attribution Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (GOV.UK), “AI Energy Council to ensure UK’s energy infrastructure ready for AI revolution”, 2025-04-08. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The quotation (7 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 and again at admission on 2026-10-30, in a fresh retrieval (SHA-256 a3c619ddcc0874ac07221e08f49e26c34c0e5cecb96a266156f4623eb6dd10f2; the bytes differ from the pack’s retrieval). Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
AI Energy Council to ensure UK’s energy infrastructure ready for AI revolution ↗ Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (GOV.UK) · 2025-04-08
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Source excerpt “advising on improving energy efficiency and sustainability in AI and data centre infrastructure, such as the use of water” Location in source paragraph beginning “It’s expected the Council will also…”
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Source details and check notes Authors Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (GOV.UK) Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 3953f76baf0ac5824d5397ff501a0d6801074c95821f46dbae9598dc5401bcfe). GOV.UK news story as served on 2026-10-28; text refers to 'today (8 April)'. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 a3c619ddcc0874ac07221e08f49e26c34c0e5cecb96a266156f4623eb6dd10f2). Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-28 Language English (en) Attribution Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (GOV.UK), “AI Energy Council to ensure UK’s energy infrastructure ready for AI revolution”, 2025-04-08. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The quotation (19 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 and again at admission on 2026-10-30, in a fresh retrieval (SHA-256 a3c619ddcc0874ac07221e08f49e26c34c0e5cecb96a266156f4623eb6dd10f2; the bytes differ from the pack’s retrieval). Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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Date. The release says the meeting takes place 'today (8 April)'.
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