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Fury as plans for new 'hyperscale' AI data centre lodged with council

Campaigners have reacted with fury after plans for a new 'hyperscale' AI data centre were lodged with North Lanarkshire Council

The National (Scotland)

Inside the huge AI data centre lobbying campaign sweeping through Holyrood

AI data centre developers and the wider industry have engaged in a sustained lobbying blitz of the Scottish Parliament, The National can reveal ...

The National (Scotland)

North Lanarkshire Residents Fear Rural Life Will Be Destroyed as £300M Data Centre Project Pushes Through

Residents and environmental groups in North Lanarkshire oppose a £300 million data centre expansion, fearing it will disrupt the rural character and strain local resources, despite promised economic benefits.

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Are 3400 jobs really on the way from Scotland's new AI Growth Zone?

3400 jobs sounds like a very precise number ...

The National (Scotland)

UK Government backs major new AI data centre in Scotland with £200m guarantee

THE UK Government has backed plans for a new AI data centre in Scotland with a £200 million loan guarantee ...

The National (Scotland)

‘It’s smoke and mirrors’: hope turns to fear in Scottish village chosen for AI datacentre

Suspicions grow in Lanarkshire that local people have been misled on supposed benefits of the huge development

The Guardian - UK

Revealed: landmark Scottish AI project has no prospect of meeting renewables promise

Exclusive: Government and developers privately acknowledged Lanarkshire datacentre site had power provision ‘issue’

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What are Britain’s AI growth zones and are the plans feasible or ‘complete bunk’?

Lanarkshire datacentre run by renewables and creating thousands of jobs not achievable by 2030, Guardian investigation finds

The Guardian - UK

Wednesday briefing: From missing billions to nonexistent datacentres, inside Britain’s AI drive

In today’s newsletter: Enormous investments in artificial intelligence promised to transform Labour’s growth problems. The reality is much murkier

The Guardian - UK

Missing money, shipped chips and a 350,000% profit: key takeaways on AI ‘phantom investments’

A Guardian investigation has put the UK government’s AI plans under the microscope. Here are the key details

The Guardian - UK

Revealed: UK’s multibillion AI drive is built on ‘phantom investments’

Exclusive: Rented datacentres and unrealised supercomputer site raise questions for Starmer’s push to ‘mainline AI into veins of economy’

The Guardian - UK

Scotland ‘leading technological revolution’ with AI Growth Zone – Liz Kendall

The UK Government has chosen Lanarkshire as the site of the new specialist zone, which aims to boost the development of data centres and similar.

Evening Standard

AI benefits to be felt ‘across community’, Kendall says as growth zone announced

The latest of the UK Government’s AI growth zones is being sited in Lanarkshire.

Evening Standard

South Lanarkshire Council slashes carbon emissions with IT upgrades

Working with DataVita, the council has transformed its digital and IT provision

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DataVita plans £8 million expansion to data centre

The cloud services provider adds an extra 400 racks, taking it up to 1,500 sq m of technical space

Insider UK

Datavita plans Scotland’s first ‘metro’ data centre at 177 Bothwell Street

The installation represents £6m of investment from the company and will be its second Scottish facility

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