Hannah Mary Goodlad: “The new policy is a real departure for the Government in terms of stepping away from giving local authorities total…”

There’s two things. There’s Scottish wide voters to judge me on, and I think that that's making sure that we have a budget process linked up with public sector reform.

Whenever there is new projects or a new type of industry being developed, you originate many, many projects, then perhaps only 10% to 15% go through.

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.

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.