‘Significant impacts and risks’ from data centres, government official cautions
Evening Standard · Katrine Bussey ·
A Scottish Government official raised ‘various concerns about the way forward’, papers released under freedom of information laws showed.
A Scottish Government official warned there were “clearly significant impacts and risks” from plans to site a number of hyperscale data centres in Scotland, documents released under freedom of information (FoI) laws have revealed.
The deputy director for domestic climate change said there were “various concerns about the way forward”, citing concerns about possible impacts on energy bills and on water usage.
The official, whose name was redacted in the documents that were released, said that depending on the location of data centres “there is a clear risk here that locals bear the brunt of increased electricity prices – or even a shortage of energy, or unreliable power – while seeing little direct benefit from ‘hosting’ the data centre”.
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