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Roselyne Min

Scotland halts new hyperscale AI data centre approvals amid environmental concerns

No new hyperscale artificial intelligence (AI) data centres are expected to be approved in Scotland for up to a year, after lawmakers backed a pause on planning decisions while new national rules are developed.

Hyperscale data centres are among the largest facilities of their kind, designed to provide vast amounts of computing power and typically requiring tens of megawatts of electricity or more.

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