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 that Shetland is the most strategic, most important and could have the potential to be one of the most influential constituencies in the whole of Scotland and at this current point in time, the whole of the UK.
I think we should be growing our population to 30,000 but then it comes back to infrastructure again, and tunnels.
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