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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
National
James Walker

Environmental warnings emerge over huge £2bn AI data centre linked to Scottish Duke

An image of the proposed development in the Lammermuirs (Image: SDC)

A HUGE planned £2 billion AI data centre linked to a Scottish aristocrat has been warned that it could affect local water supplies and have a “significant impact” on a protected stretch of the River Tweed, The National can reveal.

Sunlaws Development Company and Roxburghe Estates – owned by Charles Innes-Ker, the 11th Duke of Roxburghe, and his family – are proposing to build the Southside data centre in the Lammermuirs in the Scottish Borders.

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