Drax Eyes Data Centres Alongside Record Renewable Generation and BECCS
Drax just reported record renewable generation — and is now exploring data centre colocation on the same site where it’s trying to build one of the world’s largest BECCS installations. Sit with that combination for a second. Drax is the UK’s largest renewable generator by output. Its North Yorkshire plant burns biomass to generate electricity, captures the CO₂ from combustion, and plans to store it permanently — bioenergy with carbon capture and storage. If BECCS works as advertised, every unit of electricity generated is carbon-negative: you pulled CO₂ from the atmosphere (as trees grow), burned it for power, and buried the emissions. Net negative. ...