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Google data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa

Scotland’s data centre reckoning part 5: What Scotland can do right now

Michael Knox June 25, 2026 No Comments

THIS SERIES HAS DOCUMENTED four failures: a planning system processing twenty hyperscale applications without cumulative assessment; a cost framework that

Scotland’s data centre reckoning part 4: The field nobody measured

Michael Knox June 24, 2026 No Comments

THERE IS A STRUCTURE that will accompany every large data centre built in Scotland, and it does not appear prominently

Scotland’s data centre reckoning part 3: The water nobody accounted for

Michael Knox June 23, 2026 No Comments

SCOTLAND IS A WET COUNTRY. That is the perception – the hills, the lochs, the rain that defines the national

Scotland’s data centre reckoning part 2: Who pays the bill?

Michael Knox June 22, 2026 No Comments

WHEN A DEVELOPER applies for planning permission to build a 500 megawatt data centre in rural Scotland, the application will