However, Wilson acknowledged that there had been negative feedback to their plans for Auchtertool. <\/p>\n
He said they wanted to talk to people individually, listen to their concerns and consider what they can do to alleviate their worries. <\/p>\n
Their planned hubs in Ayrshire, North Lanarkshire and Fife would have a combined energy capacity of 1540GW, he added. <\/p>\n
“We believe we will create a blueprint for an all-green AI data centre that will be replicated all over the world,” he said.<\/p>\n
The construction of hyperscale data centres across the country could create hundreds of new jobs, he added.<\/p>\n
Wilson said: “We believe the sites for our data centres are the right sites for Scotland. <\/p>\n
“The site in Fife is already in an industrial area which is ideal for employment.<\/p>\n
“It is also close to the Mossmorran power plant that shut down recently causing job losses. <\/p>\n
“We are creating hundreds of apprenticeships so we can retrain those who worked at Mossmorran to move into the data centre or renewable energy sector.”<\/p>\n
The issue was raised this week by the Scottish Greens at the final First Minister’s Questions before the summer recess, where they called on John Swinney to back a moratorium on planning approvals. <\/p>\n
Swinney replied that he understood the environmental concerns over hyperscale data centres and was giving “active consideration” to whether local authorities should be given new national planning guidance. <\/p>\n
He said such guidance might be a way of balancing the rapid expansion of such centres with national energy and climate goals. <\/p>\n
A Scottish government spokesperson said the voices of communities affected by these developments must be central to any considerations.<\/p>\n
They added that planning authorities have a responsibility to consider the environmental implications of all developments which require planning permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, Wilson acknowledged that there had been negative feedback to their plans for Auchtertool. He said they wanted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-658313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}