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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
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[email protected] | Alasdair Ferguson

Council restricts planning objections amid huge AI data centre backlash

An artist's impression of the proposed data centre.

A SECOND council has changed how people can object to planning applications after it received an “overwhelming” amount of objections to a proposed AI data centre on the site of a 1000-year-old castle.

Fife Council has confirmed it will no longer accept planning applications by email after it received more than 14,000 representations to plans for a 600MW hyperscale data centre, near Auchtertool, that would see the Hallyards Castle destroyed to make way for the building.

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