@c4news: Scotland is becoming an unlikely battleground in the artificial intelligence revolution, with around two dozen proposals in the pipeline to build enormous data centres. One company has just secured a £200m financial guarantee from the UK government to expand and build in Scotland’s first AI Growth Zone in North Lanarkshire. But there’s been a backlash in local communities - and campaigners argue these hyperscale data centres will harm the environment and place huge strain on electricity and water. #datacentres #ai #scotland #C4News