英国用于关键服务的数据中心将获得电网优先接入权和现场发电许可，这是旨在加快必要基础设施建设的新规则内容。
UK data centers used for critical services will be given priority access to the grid and the authority to generate power on site, under new rules aimed at speeding up construction of essential infrastructure.
英国财政大臣约翰·希利周三在预算演讲中表示，这种接入权将与设施投资当地社区、创造本地就业岗位和保护当地水资源挂钩。
That access will be linked to facilities investing in local communities, creating local jobs and preserving local water supplies, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey said during his budget speech on Wednesday.
根据预算案，英国数据中心契约将适用于为英国国家医疗服务体系（NHS）和军方等实体提供服务的数据中心。这些场所还需确保其能源需求不会导致家庭和其他企业的电价上涨，并应将其产生的热量用于区域供暖项目。
The British Data Centre Covenant will apply to data centers serving entities such as the UK’s health service and the military. The sites will also need to ensure their energy demands don’t create price increases for households and other businesses and should use the heat they produce for district heating projects, according to the budget.
希利表示：“为确保我们最敏感的数据保持在英国控制之下，我正在为英国数据中心制定一项新协议。作为回报，关键数据中心将获得所需的电网接入，并在必要时获准在等待期间建设现场发电设施。” 这一举措反映了欧洲更广泛的推动，旨在对支撑关键服务的数据、云基础设施和算力施加更大控制，并减少对美国科技公司的依赖。这种主权追求给主导市场大部分份额的美国科技公司制造了新障碍。
“To ensure our most sensitive data stays under British control, I am setting out a new deal for data centers in the UK,” Healey said. “In return, critical data centers will get the grid connections they need, and, where necessary, be allowed to build on-site generation while they wait.”The initiative reflects a broader European push to exert greater control over the data, cloud infrastructure and computing capacity underpinning critical services and reduce reliance on US technology companies. The drive for sovereignty creates new hurdles for the American tech firms that dominate much of the market.
英国的电网限制已成为该国数据中心发展的瓶颈。微软公司最近因对场地电力供应的不确定性，退出了与新云公司 Nscale 的数据中心协议。
The UK’s electricity grid constraints have become a bottleneck for data center development in the country. Microsoft Corp. recently pulled out of a data center agreement with neocloud company Nscale, due to uncertainties over power supply to the site.
根据英国《规划与基础设施法》赋予的新权力，政府将寻求为包括部分数据中心在内的战略重要项目预留未来电网容量。
Using new powers under the UK’s Planning and Infrastructure Act, the government will seek to reserve future grid capacity for strategically important projects including some data centers.
根据《预算报告》，如果“极具战略意义”的场所无法及时获得所需的电力容量，可能会被允许使用现场发电，直到获得电网接入。
If “exceptionally strategic” sites can’t get access to required capacity in time, they may be permitted to use on-site generation until a grid connection can be secured, according to the Budget report.