'Never seen this level of objection': Scotland pushes back against datacentres

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cyber_kinetist•about 3 hours ago

Which counteracts with the EU's desire to have any kind of sovereign AI. Guess you have to lose something if you want to earn something...

mzajc•about 3 hours ago

Scotland is not a member of the EU since brexit.

rcxdude•about 3 hours ago

The irony is, given the UK's single energy market and the bottlenecks moving that energy down from Scotland, building datacenters further south will push up Scotland's energy prices as well, more so than if they were built locally.

rozab•about 2 hours ago

And yet here we are, still subsidizing steelworks in England, and Scottish people are paying the cost in their electricity bills.

Scotland's abundant local energy resources should be spent on things that actually benefit Scotland and provide jobs.

comrade1234•about 2 hours ago

They raise your electricity costs and employ relatively few people and send the profits elsewhere.

yanhangyhy•about 3 hours ago

why dont they build the datacenters far away from people/village/towns?

rcxdude•about 3 hours ago

More difficult to built, more difficult to get permission, ironically, and presumably the datacenters are planning to employ some people so they'll want to live at least somewhat nearby.

yanhangyhy•about 2 hours ago

but since they have so many objection now. learn from china's approch? https://japantoday.com/category/tech/china-goes-rural-with-d... (from what i learned it should be build datacents far away -> attract people to work nearby, not the other way around)

even it cost more, but still better thant the current situation?

afpx•about 2 hours ago

Too easy to destroy if they're outside of population centers - soon they'll be building them under hospitals and orphanages

'Never seen this level of objection': Scotland pushes back against datacentres

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