{"id":23812,"date":"2026-07-06T07:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T05:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/06\/revealed-landmark-scottish-ai-project-has-no-prospect-of-meeting-renewables-promise\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T07:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T05:37:14","slug":"revealed-landmark-scottish-ai-project-has-no-prospect-of-meeting-renewables-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/06\/revealed-landmark-scottish-ai-project-has-no-prospect-of-meeting-renewables-promise\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: landmark Scottish AI project has no prospect of meeting renewables promise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Government and developers privately acknowledged Lanarkshire datacentre site had power provision \u2018issue\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jul\/05\/scotland-lanarkshire-village-ai-datacentre\">\u2018It\u2019s smoke and mirrors\u2019: hope turns to fear in Scottish village chosen for AI datacentre<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jul\/06\/britain-ai-growth-zones-explainer\">What are Britain\u2019s AI growth zones and are the plans feasible or \u2018complete bunk\u2019?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A landmark AI development billed as delivering jobs and prosperity has misrepresented its plans to channel a nuclear reactor\u2019s worth of power to a site in rural Scotland, a Guardian investigation has found.<\/p>\n<p>When it was announced in January, the government promised that an \u00a38.2bn AI datacentre complex in Lanarkshire \u2013 built by the US firm CoreWeave and the Scottish company DataVita \u2013 would be powered entirely from on-site renewables and built by 2030.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jul\/06\/lanarkshire-scotland-ai-datacentre-project-renewable-energy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/bedaaf7a739978cbe0d9110233dda7f790cdbdd7\/0_0_5000_4000\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=c63be72527a2773a1504a9b764fbc2da\" title=\"Revealed: landmark Scottish AI project has no prospect of meeting renewables promise\" \/>Exclusive: Government and developers privately acknowledged Lanarkshire datacentre site had power provision \u2018issue\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s smoke and mirrors\u2019: hope turns to fear in Scottish village chosen for AI datacentre<br \/>\nWhat are Britain\u2019s AI growth zones and are the plans feasible or \u2018complete bunk\u2019?<\/p>\n<p>A landmark AI development billed as delivering jobs and prosperity has misrepresented its plans to channel a nuclear reactor\u2019s worth of power to a site in rural Scotland, a Guardian investigation has found.<br \/>\nWhen it was announced in January, the government promised that an \u00a38.2bn AI datacentre complex in Lanarkshire \u2013 built by the US firm CoreWeave and the Scottish company DataVita \u2013 would be powered entirely from on-site renewables and built by 2030. 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A landmark AI development billed as delivering jobs and prosperity has misrepresented its &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/06\/revealed-landmark-scottish-ai-project-has-no-prospect-of-meeting-renewables-promise\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Revealed: landmark Scottish AI project has no prospect of meeting renewables promise<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23812"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}