It is time to pause hyperscale data centre applications until councils have clear guidance, communities have certainty, and Scotland has a coherent national strategy to deal with them instead of a corporate free-for-all.
Advocating for a pause on data centre applications.
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People have been targeted with harassment and violence on racial grounds, and organisations such as schools, housing associations and small businesses have been targeted for nothing more than teaching languages.
Allowing the data centre industry to grab Scotland’s natural resources for their own benefit would be yet another example.
Our Parliament should be setting the highest standards. MSPs should be bringing people together and working to ease tensions, not inflaming them and trying to turn communities against each other.
No company fuelling Putin’s war machine should be allowed to profit in Scotland or anywhere else in Europe.
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