{"id":63,"date":"2026-07-09T06:41:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T06:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/?p=63"},"modified":"2026-07-09T06:41:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T06:41:47","slug":"scotland-could-freeze-new-datacenters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/scotland-could-freeze-new-datacenters\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland could freeze new datacenters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Scottish National party (SNP)\u2019s national council has voted to <strong>stop development of all new datacentres in Scotland<\/strong>, and is now over to the Scottish government to decide on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[The SNP report] says there are 24 \u201chyperscale\u201d datacentre projects in various stages of planning in Scotland. Combined, they would use more than one-and-a-half times the power Scotland uses at peak demand.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This latest in a string of possible and definite moratoriums on data centers reflects the groundswell of public pressure we&#8217;ve seen so far this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2026\/jul\/07\/scotland-could-freeze-datacentre-projects-in-challenge-to-uks-ai-strategy\">Read more at The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Development of 24 hyperscale data centers could be frozen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[17,33,32],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai-news","category-success-stories","tag-data-centers","tag-moratorium","tag-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}