Scotland could freeze new datacentres, threatening the UK’s AI plan
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A potential nationwide moratorium on new datacentres in Scotland would turn "compute scarcity" into a permitting and politics problem, not just a chip problem. If you're siting AI infrastructure in the UK, you now have to underwrite planning risk as seriously as hardware supply.
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