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Lanarkshire AI datacentre to fully rely on National Grid despite renewables claim

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DataVita has revised plan for Chapelhall development to be wholly powered by 1GW of renewable energyA datacentre company that said it would power a massive AI development near Glasgow with renewable energy has admitted that the scheme will be entirely served by the National Grid.DataVita, a key plank of the UK’s AI strategy, had promised

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A question for those who hate datacentres

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Technology and urban planning | The Guardian letters page | PorridgeYour account of the datacentre controversy in Cardiff (The datacentre next door: on the frontline of tech’s latest David v Goliath battle, 24 October) missed out the important balancing fact that Cardiff council is seeking a replacement site for the park and ride facility that

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AI book prize judges face a major speed-reading challenge | Brief letters

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Prix Pascal de Littérature IA | Dickensian solicitors | Cleobury Mortimer | Great Tapestry of Scotland | From Bayeux to Britain The deadline for submissions to the Prix Pascal de Littérature IA, 30 November, is also the date when the shortlisted entries are due to be announced (New prize launches for books co-written with AI, 21 October). It

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Scotland imposes mandatory environmental assessments on new datacentres

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Government announces before vote on moratorium that any projects above 50MW must submit assessments in planning processLarge-scale datacentres will face mandatory environmental assessments before they can go ahead, the Scottish government has announced, amid growing public concern about the impact of the AI boom.Ahead of a vote on a moratorium on new hyperscale datacentres in

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Food delivery riders call on platforms to open up AI ‘black box’ they say has cut pay

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Workers who blame algorithms for lowering their earnings are getting help from academics to find out how the system worksGig economy workers are urging delivery platforms to open up the “black box” of computer-driven algorithms that determine the jobs they are offered and how much they are paid, blaming increased use of AI for lowering

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Hundreds gather to urge Scottish government to pause datacentre boom

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Opposition mounts as at least 20 projects proposed, including one in Fife billed as second largest in worldKat Jones may be the closest thing Scotland has to Erin Brockovich in 2026. Standing in the shadow of Arthur’s Seat outside Holyrood, the 52-year-old is revving up the crowd of protesters around her. “Who is here from

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AI is hurting US politics. Here’s how candidates could use it for good | Bruce Schneier and Nathan E Sanders

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The technology can help candidates listen more deeply to voters, as examples from Japan and Scotland showThere are plenty of signs that AI will make all of our experiences of the US midterm elections worse. Voters have anxiety about AI’s impacts on the country. Politicos are using AI deepfakes to spread lies. The White House

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

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Holyrood ‘inching towards moratorium’ amid concerns over massive proposed developments in Auchtertool and beyondIn 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

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Scottish police expect ‘great deal of public opposition’ to planned Larbert datacentre

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Planning consultation told ‘robust security measures’ will be needed amid growing resistance to such developmentsScottish police have warned that a proposed datacentre will require “robust security measures” to prevent “incursion” amid growing public resistance to such developments in Scotland.“A great deal of public opposition is likely” to a datacentre planned in Larbert, about 30 miles

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Scotland could freeze datacentre projects in challenge to UK’s AI strategy

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Scottish government to consider SNP national council motion for moratorium on all new datacentresThe Scottish government is about to consider a sweeping moratorium on building new datacentres, putting a key plank of the UK’s AI strategy at risk.Last Sunday the Scottish National party (SNP)’s national council passed a motion to freeze all new datacentres in

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