Environmental charities have written to the First Minister renewing calls for a moratorium on hyperscale data centres until key environmental conditions are met, as opposition gathers pace and campaigners race to prevent two major developments ...
ERCS welcomes Scottish Government EIA decision for Edinburgh data centre planning appeal
A planning reporter has issued a ‘screening direction’ requiring an environmental impact assessment to be carried out for a proposal to build a 210-megawatt data centre ...
Data centres in the Scottish planning system would double Scotland’s energy demands – press release
In a letter to the Scottish Government, the environmental charities APRS and ERCS call for an urgent response to the threat data centres pose to Scotland’s energy security, energy prices and climate targets ...
