Action to Protect Rural Scotland

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There's a debate in the Scottish Parliament today called 'It's Scotland's Energy' and we have news of a 600MW hyperscale AI data centre in Fife.

With 6,200MW of demand now in the planning system, it won't be Scotland's energy if these data centres get built, it will be Silicon Valley's energy

It's great to see our story covered across loads of papers today. Here's coverage from the Scotsman, the Guardian and the National.

The greenhouse gas emissions of hyperscale AI data centres have not been included in the Scottish Government’s analysis of the impact of ‘green data centres’ on Scotland’s climate targets. We have laid all this out in our representation to the Edinburgh Gyle data centre appeal because it is central to the decision making in this case.

It was great to see this story covered in loads of media yesterday - National, Scotsman, STV, Daily Record and many others. It is an important we have transparency for developments we are told are of national interest.

The jobs the UK Government claim will be created are a case in point... we found from an Freedom of Information Request that 90% of the figure were in construction, indirect and induced jobs and less than 10% were actually jobs in the data centre.

Our report on jobs and data centres suggest the figure is nearer to 1% of their estimate. A typical data centre employs 20-50 people.