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‘Never seen this level of objection’: Scotland pushes back against datacentre boom

Business | The Guardian UK 25 August 2026, 05:00 UTC 1d ago
‘Never seen this level of objection’: Scotland pushes back against datacentre boom
Business | The Guardian

Holyrood ‘inching towards moratorium’ amid concerns over massive proposed developments in Auchtertool and beyond In a village 21 miles north of Edinburgh, a real estate consultancy plans to build a datacentre larger than the village itself – 35 metres high, with an area larger than 100 football pitches. Billed as the second-biggest datacentre in the world, the development in Auchertool, Fife, has attracted 1,600 objections. Continue reading...

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