John Swinney refuses to pause AI data centre applications amid concerns

John Swinney refuses to pause AI data centre applications amid concerns

JOHN Swinney has refused to hit pause on AI data centre applications after the Greens raised fears of "free-for-all" flurry of proposals…

Why Swinney is correct to reject call for AI data centre pause in Scotland

I knows this one is divisive. More than a few Talking-up Scotland readers disagree with us on it but here is the case, again, that Scotland is one of the few places with the resources – water and energy – to make a lot of money out of data centres, once independent of course. From the Sunday Mail 28 December 2025, the above back-to-front headline and: Massive new data centres planned in Scotland to power the AI revolution would use up to three q…