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WATT A WASTE
Sunday Mail
|December 21, 2025
New tech plants 'would use three quarters of nation's energy output'
MASSIVE new data centres planned in Scotland to power the AI revolution would use up to three-quarters of the country's total electricity demand, a study has claimed.
Research firm Foxglove, which campaigns for fair tech, found the "staggering" amount of power as well as water required by data centres "carries serious environmental risk" for the nation.
Its study this month found 11 "hyperscale" data centres currently in the planning system could use up 3000 megawatts of electricity once operational.
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