Environmental Audit Committee
10 June 2026
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Environmental Audit Committee House of Commons
00:00 - 00:45
Speaker 1
Order, order. Well, welcome everybody to the latest panel session of the Environmental Audit Committee. And this is the first session in our new study into data centres. I'm very pleased to say that we have two excellent panels in front of us today. I'm going to start by inviting our panelists simply to introduce themselves and their organisations and their most basic perspective on the need for data centres.
So if I could start with yourself, Mr. Birtwistle.
00:45 - 00:58
Speaker 3
Hello, thank you very much to the committee. My name is Michael Birtwistle, I'm Associate Director for Law and Policy at the Ada Lovelace Institute, which is a philanthropically funded independent research institute with a mission to make AI and data work for people and society. Thank you.
00:58 - 01:02
Speaker 2
Brilliant, thank you very much. Ms Christopoulou.
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