TWENTY HYPERSCALE DATA CENTRES are currently working their way through Scotland’s planning system. If they are all built, their combined electricity demand will exceed Scotland’s entire winter peak consumption. Every watt that keeps Scottish homes warm, hospitals running, and trains moving in the coldest weeks of the year – matched, and then surpassed, by server […]
Day: 18 June 2026
The manufacture of consensus: How online debate became managed opinion
AARON SWARTZ believed the internet could set knowledge free. That may sound naïve now, after years of bot farms, algorithmic manipulation, political pile-ons and online communities moderated into ideological uniformity. Yet the early promise of the internet was real. It offered ordinary people a route around the old gatekeepers, where information could be shared and […]