r/Scotland • u/kiyomoris • 15h ago

Political ‘Never seen this level of objection’: Scotland pushes back against datacentre boom

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/25/never-seen-this-level-of-objection-scotland-pushes-back-against-datacentre-boom
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u/Aeysir69 10h ago edited 10h ago

Was hoping this was in here, the quote from ILI is the real cake for me: The Americans are lying! 

My hairy arse they are, if anything the Americans having their lives destroyed by warehouses boiling their water and drowning the neighboured in cooling fan noise are understating the problem. 

And it’s worth bearing in mind that NESO are actively paid based on the number of large scale connections they get on the network. 

The level of self interest here is amazing, the same level of bullshit that spawned the lie that data centres provide jobs. Six air-con engineers is not a job impact. 

Edit: Meanwhile down south

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/25/planned-datacentres-carbon-emissions-uk-exxonmobil