techUK is delighted to be welcome back the Greater London Authority (GLA) to engage in a second round of discussions on data centres across a variety of policy areas. This follows on from our engagement with Theo Blackwell, London’s Chief Digital Officer, earlier in the year and a productive roundtable in July.
techUK will be bringing together relevant members with GLA officials from digital infrastructure, environment, planning and business directorates and will be a fantastic opportunity to engage and educate officials on the requirements of Data Centre operators and vice versa. We will be using this as an opportunity to inform officials of the challenges that the sector is facing around energy connections – in this instance, particularly the West London hotspot – as part of our wider engagement on the issue.
The agenda will be:
- What has been / is being developed (ha of land, floorspace, storeys/height, typology, use class)? – What are key operational, design and landscaping features/requirements?
- Do/could schemes involve any co-location with other uses as well as active frontages (if yes, which and where)?
- What are/could be specific benefits/opportunities of the schemes and their wider urban context – economic, social, environmental?
- What are/could be specific mitigation measures to address negative impacts?
- AOB
Lucas Banach
Lucas Banach
Lucas Banach is Programme Assistant at techUK, he works on a range of programmes including Data Centres; Climate, Environment & Sustainability; Market Access and Smart Infrastructure and Systems.
Before that Lucas who joined in 2008, held various roles in our organisation, which included his role as Office Executive, Groups and Concept Viability Administrator, and most recently he worked as Programme Executive for Public Sector. He has a postgraduate degree in International Relations from the Andrzej Frycz-Modrzewski Cracow University.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Phone:
- 020 7331 2006
- Twitter:
- @techUK
- Website:
- www.techuk.org
- LinkedIn:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucas-banach-50139650
Luisa C. Cardani
Luisa C. Cardani
Luisa C. Cardani is the Head of the Data Centres Programme at techUK, aiming to provide a collective voice for UK operators and working with government to improve business environment for the data centres sector.
Prior to joining techUK, Luisa worked in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport as the Head of International Data Protection, where she led on the development of elements of the UK's data protection and privacy policy. In her role, she was also the UK official representative for the EOCD Privacy Guidelines Informal Advisory Group.
She has held a number of position in government, including leading on cross-cutting data provisions in the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement, and in high priority cross-departmental projects when working in the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
She holds an M.Sc. from University College London's Department of Political Sciences.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Phone:
- 07587 210 799
- Website:
- www.techUK.org
- LinkedIn:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/luisacardani
