Data Center News

Apatura Changes Location of Planned 300MW Facility

A renewables firm planning a 300MW AI data center campus in Scotland is now targeting a new site three miles from its original planned location. This week, the firm detailed its intention to instead house the campus on land at Glenbervie Business Centre in Larbert, three miles from Plean, lod...

October 21, 2025

Apatura

Data center Planned at Coal Store in East Lothian, Scotland

Scotland's East Lothian Council has selected UK investment firm Sustainable Development Capital LLP (SDCL) as its preferred supplier for a potential hyperscale data center at a former coal storage site in Cockenzie, East Lothian.“While this process is still at an initial stage, it marks an imp...

October 21, 2025

Scotland

Data center Application Filed in Scotland

Battery storage firm Apatura has filed an application to develop a data center outside Cumnock, southwest Scotland. The company is requesting an Environmental Impact Assessment Screening Opinion ahead of full planning permission as it looks to develop on 24.5 hectares of land south of Creoch F...

June 21, 2025

Scotland

Edinburgh University to use waste heat from data center to warm up buildings

Edinburgh University has announced plans to use waste heat from its data center to warm up its buildings and has has received grant funding of just under £2.1 million ($2.62m) to support the energy-saving project at its Kings Buildings campus.The university will also invest £520,000 of its own...

April 30, 2024

Edinburgh

Sky signs new wing PPA in Scotland

UK telco and media firm Sky has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Octopus Renewables Infrastructure to procure the output of a Scottish windfarm. Following this deal, ky UK buy 69 percent of the electricity produced by the 46MW Crossdykes windfarm, located in Lanarkshire, Scotland, ...

April 25, 2024

Scotland

EE installs 4G mast in two remote Scottish Islands

UK mobile operator EE has installed new 4G mobile masts in two remote Scottish islands; Out Skerries, one of the UK's most remote islands with a population of around 70, and another on Foulda, Shetlands. This is as a part of the Scottish Government’s £28.75 million Scottish 4G Infill program, ...

December 06, 2023

Scotland

Scotland continues to pursue data center developers and suggests five possible locations

The Scottish authorities are still trying to attract data center developers to their country. Twenty potential data center sites in the nation have been identified in a report created by Host in Scotland in support of the Scottish Authorities, including five additional spots not mentioned in a...

June 16, 2023

Scotland

COP26 and OpenUK's 'Patchwork Kilt' Edge data center blueprint

At the COP26 event in Glasgow, OpenUK shared its net-zero data center blueprint. The not-for-profit organisation's "Patchwork Kilt" framework aims to make new Edge data centers more sustainable and promote the curricular economy. The project proposes using derelict building stock and creating ...

November 12, 2021

Glasgow

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