Societal Impact of AI: Government Policy - 8th July 2026

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Societal Impact of AI: Government Policy.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2026-07-08/debates/0408904B-DCE4-4DCC-9E58-5F460AB61926/SocietalImpactofAIGovernmentPolicy

14:53 Anneliese Dodds (Labour)

In public services, we must move beyond no, low and performative adoption to appropriate and transparent adoption that puts people and places first. It is critical that the UK can deploy sufficient compute to support those aspirations. I hope that the AI Energy Council can develop plans for a line delivery of renewable energy and data centre projects, as well as fixing difficult issues such as demand modulation to unblock additional capacity. There can genuinely be a win-win here, but for that and greater adoption to be achieved, I agree with what others have said: we have to face up to public concern about the risks. We need only look at what is happening in Scotland right now to see that.

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