THIS SERIES HAS DOCUMENTED four failures: a planning system processing twenty hyperscale applications without cumulative assessment; a cost framework that
THERE IS A STRUCTURE that will accompany every large data centre built in Scotland, and it does not appear prominently
SCOTLAND IS A WET COUNTRY. That is the perception – the hills, the lochs, the rain that defines the national
WHEN A DEVELOPER applies for planning permission to build a 500 megawatt data centre in rural Scotland, the application will
TWENTY HYPERSCALE DATA CENTRES are currently working their way through Scotland’s planning system. If they are all built, their combined
ONE OF THE THORNIEST PROBLEMS in public policy – and one that has been discussed already on this site –