Repeated as Guardian today typically misses an independent Scotland’s unique ability to handle and to make money from AI data centres

Confused Sunday Mail misses how Scotland’s massive energy over-production could make billions after independence easily feeding and watering the ‘gobbling’ AI data centres

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5 thoughts on “Repeated as Guardian today typically misses an independent Scotland’s unique ability to handle and to make money from AI data centres”

  1. The unionists, following the Scottish elections, which they present as an ‘SNP fail’ because it did not achieve the majority that John Swinney has aspired to, are clearly shit scared and are revisiting the Project Fear handbook from 2014. We are getting all the ‘Scotland is too wee and not very good’ drivel that they spewed out then.

    Despite the fact that already Scotland produces 200% of its energy needs from renewables with the potential for much more from solar, wind and tidal, as well as via different kinds of heat pumps, this article is trying to scare the populace about shortages.

    However, Labour claims that Scotland MUST HAVE SMALL MODULAR NUCLEAR REACTORS, and due to the pig headedness of the SNP and the ‘extremism’ of the Greens, this is not going to happen. Hence the assertion that AI centres will ‘gobble up’ all our energy, with the unspoken caveat ‘unless we introduce SMRs’.

    Westminster wants ‘Britain’ to be a world leader in AI. This is a reasonable aim and in our Scottish Universities, particularly in Dundee, we have such expertise. But ‘Scottish Labour’ asserts that such creativity is ‘not part of the genetic programming of Scots’, so we need ‘British’ expertise and ‘British’ control and energy from British Energy’s SMRs.

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  2. Do we really want AI data Centres? The energy they consume and the water and for what purpose? Once built they don’t provide many jobs but consume resources. Again what would be their purpose.

    I think this needs careful thought before making a decision one way or another

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  3. It seems that communities across the US are objecting to plans for AI data centres in their vicinity. Perhaps we should take note and consider if we want them in Scotland

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