{"id":772269,"date":"2026-09-16T07:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T07:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/772269\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T07:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T07:32:14","slug":"msps-asked-to-pause-scotlands-ai-data-centre-boom-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/772269\/","title":{"rendered":"MSPs asked to pause Scotland&#039;s AI data centre boom &#8211; BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiXkFVX3lxTFBBTWh4UTd4YWVQRGQ0bVZVUm5ja1BiWC1LLXBwcVRyM1d4c2RIT09PbEtwSVdHVmN4YU9Od2ZPOW5iUnh5ajB3NWZob2FJcnFYU3JVYVlKbVk3Rlp5dlE?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MSPs asked to pause Scotland&#8217;s AI data centre boom<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMimAFBVV95cUxOTXEwZVR1ZWJ0OHZkbmdXclZBaGE2ajBZYUU3dEhXem1uUzR6WDZFZ1pxUFZ4TVpNRm5oc0lleGN6aXA0R0xtWTdpaTVsbm50anlPd2d2d3EwTndlbzl6c0VPaFJyMVY2SHROUUU3aER2ZGEyVU5jZXJPMjVmcDFnOW12MjM4Rk50ekVvOW1QLURIOEZUMHdPMA?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Greens urge MSPs to vote for moratorium on hyperscale data centres<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Independent<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMie0FVX3lxTFBQa0pOY3BOeVJ4WnV3Tjg0cTFkcDI3ZzRSNmRGMG5QVFRRcVlub1dhQTlpdUVuQTl1d1pycjBoYTlvMHI5VGlpcV84SWZsZnlPeFBiV2M3R0ZoOHo3ZkxqNVB2NVhPOEpfby1laGUyMTVKaTdURVFUbHlmbw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fagan calls for tax on new datacentres<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Morning Star | The People\u2019s Daily<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMikwFBVV95cUxPbVYtOEFRbFJjem90TVdCWVZhRTNLLUlmN3lzMUlGZVdycTR6NGQ3U1RSd1VRR3R3ZG5aemtuelVDVy0yNm1vSkotX1FQYU9UTWk0OTFFd0t1a0Q0NjhKellsVTJrVVFlMDk5T0xWUFF5MWVBS2xXOEdxMzJ5YXp2MHNxN2ZPNnJKLWdPY3FsV1BSUTA?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">It\u2019s all eyes on Holyrood for campaigners against AI data centres<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;thenational.scot<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMipwFBVV95cUxOc1Z4RGZhcHVsOWlwdjJPekRvLWpLd2s5ZmI0Q1JuZnJBR0J0NUpTVUJVNjlIZ1A2cmJiczJ4bEhxQnhuMWExOWVQNmpZQnlpSDMyOWVwUHpubDZEaDdDVWFudWZGMjFjaTRlWHZlVFo5dS1PTUU3dE4yZC05bzByWTh4amZxaXBNVEtNZzZCRzZiejVON1BjMFllcDd2TmxyWHlSaFp0Z9IBrwFBVV95cUxPMjBrTTluOFR3dW1FUzU5eDhCZXpBMGJidDRLVjdjQ0NsN3NVNDNJMFQ3YmVnREJDcjZ5ZnF4Qld3Vm9ORmhGQTdKazk1Q1dfOWZWYTRGd1JadUp5N3A0eG9yX3JfZGdhWFNxTnd4WDlsbV9KUTFvTWZTbTR4OHpPVUQza0NXU0NfZExtR2RuQkd6ZTBraTFSbzZiQ2k2d0pBcVlkQnoxdzZKSDZHOFlr?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Examining the status of all 24 proposed Scottish data centres<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;deadlinenews.co.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MSPs asked to pause Scotland&#8217;s AI data centre boom&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCGreens urge MSPs to vote for moratorium on hyperscale data&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-772269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772269","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=772269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}