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This interactive map shows rise of AI data centres across Scotland

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The strongest version of this narrative highlights legitimate concerns about the rapid expansion of AI data centres in Scotland, framing them as a threat to energy affordability, environmental sustainability, and community autonomy. The article effectively uses data—such as the 11,000MW demand figure and the 267% energy price spike in the US—to underscore the scale of the issue. It also amplifies local voices, like those in Auchtertool and the Lammermuirs, to humanize the opposition. However, th...