We must balance the economic and employment interests in developing data centres with national energy, climate and community wealth building ambitions, which are vital to our future prosperity, as well as the potential impact on local communities.
Emphasizing the need for balance in data centre development.
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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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