{"id":24718,"date":"2026-09-03T22:37:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T20:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/03\/hundreds-gather-to-urge-scottish-government-to-pause-datacentre-boom\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T22:37:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T20:37:26","slug":"hundreds-gather-to-urge-scottish-government-to-pause-datacentre-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/03\/hundreds-gather-to-urge-scottish-government-to-pause-datacentre-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds gather to urge Scottish government to pause datacentre boom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Opposition mounts as at least 20 projects proposed, including one in Fife billed as second largest in world<\/p>\n

Kat Jones may be the closest thing Scotland has to Erin Brockovich in 2026. Standing in the shadow of Arthur\u2019s Seat outside Holyrood, the 52-year-old is revving up the crowd of protesters around her. \u201cWho is here from Lammermuir? Ayrshire? What about Aberdeen?\u201d she calls to the crowd.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, hundreds travelled to Edinburgh<\/a> to call for an immediate moratorium on Scotland\u2019s datacentre boom, which includes one project in Auchtertool, Fife, that has been billed as the second largest in the world.<\/p>\n

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\nOpposition mounts as at least 20 projects proposed, including one in Fife billed as second largest in world
\nKat Jones may be the closest thing Scotland has to Erin Brockovich in 2026. Standing in the shadow of Arthur\u2019s Seat outside Holyrood, the 52-year-old is revving up the crowd of protesters around her. \u201cWho is here from Lammermuir? Ayrshire? What about Aberdeen?\u201d she calls to the crowd.
\nOn Thursday, hundreds travelled to Edinburgh to call for an immediate moratorium on Scotland\u2019s datacentre boom, which includes one project in Auchtertool, Fife, that has been billed as the second largest in the world. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Opposition mounts as at least 20 projects proposed, including one in Fife billed as second largest in world Kat Jones may be the closest thing Scotland has to Erin Brockovich in 2026. Standing in the shadow of Arthur\u2019s Seat outside Holyrood, the 52-year-old is revving up the crowd of protesters around her. \u201cWho is here …<\/p>\n

Hundreds gather to urge Scottish government to pause datacentre boom<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24719,"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\/24718"}],"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=24718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}