October 21, 2025 Apatura
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, lodging...
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October 21, 2025 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...
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June 21, 2025 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 Farm...
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April 30, 2024 Edinburgh
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...
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April 25, 2024 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, for...
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December 06, 2023 Scotland
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,...
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June 16, 2023 Scotland
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 an...
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September 02, 2022 DataVita: Lanarkshire DV1
DataVita has announced that it is expanding its Fortis data center in Scotland. The company plans to invest £8 million ($9.3m) in the facility. The plan is to add 400 racks and 5,380 square feet (500 square meters) of space to its flagship data center. The MD of DataVita, Danny Quinn, said: “The...
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November 12, 2021 Glasgow
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...
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May 13, 2021 DataVita: Lanarkshire DV1
DataVita has announced the acquisition of the Fortis Tier-III certified data center, based in Glasgow, Scotland, after operating the facility since 2016. The acquisition was made with £45 million ($63.1 million) of support by HFD Group, and Datavita will now take full ownership. Built by HFD...
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