Denmark has become the unlikely flashpoint in Europe's battle over who gets power and who gets left behind. In March 2025, state-owned grid operator Energinet froze all new grid connection agreements after receiving requests totalling 60 GW, nearly nine times the country's peak electricity demand of 7 GW. Data centres alone account for 14 GW of that queue.

The surge in applications is being driven by a collision of forces: the energy transition, accelerating digitalisation, and an AI infrastructure arms race that is compressing decades of demand into a few years.

Energinet described the incoming applications as an "explosion", and the........

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