Revealed: landmark Scottish AI project has no prospect of meeting renewables promise
Exclusive: Government and developers privately acknowledged Lanarkshire datacentre site had power provision ‘issue’
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A landmark AI development billed as delivering jobs and prosperity has misrepresented its plans to channel a nuclear reactor’s worth of power to a site in rural Scotland, a Guardian investigation has found.
When it was announced in January, the government promised that an £8.2bn AI datacentre complex in Lanarkshire – built by the US firm CoreWeave and the Scottish company DataVita – would be powered entirely from on-site renewables and built by 2030.
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