Ministers are giving active consideration as to whether the Scottish Government should provide planning guidance to balance the interest in developing hyperscale data centres with national energy and climate goals, which are vital to our future prosperity.
Discussing planning guidance for data centres and climate goals.
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It is essential to secure public benefits from this type of development, and I am clear that voices of communities that will be affected will be central to any considerations on data centres.
I think we've outgrown our ferry service. I think we have outgrown the population that that can sustain, and also the industry that that can incubate.
I think we should be growing our population to 30,000 but then it comes back to infrastructure again, and tunnels.
This waste heat could potentially give us an opportunity to tap into this, if we strategically think about where these data centres are located, to be creating district heating schemes.
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