{"id":741649,"date":"2026-08-18T08:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T08:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/741649\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T08:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T08:08:09","slug":"second-data-centre-planned-for-lanarkshire-as-regulations-tightened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/741649\/","title":{"rendered":"Second data centre planned for Lanarkshire as regulations tightened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The spate of planning applications across Scotland has proved a concern for people living near the proposed sites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Scotland News has previously spoken to residents worried about the noise and damage of construction, and who are fearful of knock-on effects of the centres themselves, particularly the large amounts of energy and water they consume.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Monday public finance minister Hannah Mary Goodlad said there needed to be a balance between &#8220;the economic and employment interests in developing data centres&#8221; with &#8220;the potential impact on local communities&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said this was why planning authorities will be required to notify Scottish ministers of new data centre applications within seven days of validation &#8211; but only if they are more than 50 megawatts (MW) in power capacity. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Goodlad said this would support &#8220;strategic monitoring&#8221; of such planning applications and the implications for wider infrastructure in an area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the new regulations would not affect DataVita&#8217;s Airdrie site, which has a 12MW capacity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">No data centres currently operational in Scotland have more than 50MW capacity, but the change could affect future sites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Details on the proposed second site are not yet available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The spate of planning applications across Scotland has proved a concern for people living near the proposed sites.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-741649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741649","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=741649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}