Scotland is becoming an unlikely battleground in the artificial intelligence revolution, with around two dozen proposals in the pipeline to build enormous data centres.
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One company has just secured a £200m financial guarantee from the UK government to expand and build in Scotland’s first AI Growth Zone in North Lanarkshire.
But there’s been a backlash in local communities – and campaigners argue these hyperscale data centres will harm the environment and place huge strain on electricity and water.
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