HOLYROOD has backed a pause on the approval of new hyperscale datacentres until the Scottish government produces new guidance for councils.The Scottish Greens had tabled a motion calling for an outright moratorium amid growing fears from communities across the country over a raft of applications making their way through councils’ planning systems.Concerns centre on the sites’ huge consumption of water and, in particular, electricity, with applications currently in train potential drawing as 1.5 times Scotland’s peak power demand. 

HOLYROOD has backed a pause on the approval of new hyperscale datacentres until the Scottish government produces new guidance for councils.

The Scottish Greens had tabled a motion calling for an outright moratorium amid growing fears from communities across the country over a raft of applications making their way through councils’ planning systems.

Concerns centre on the sites’ huge consumption of water and, in particular, electricity, with applications currently in train potential drawing as 1.5 times Scotland’s peak power demand.

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