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"Revealed: landmark Scottish AI project has no prospect of meeting renewables promise"
#Scotland #Technology #AI

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’

Saw a stoat on this morning's walk, zipping across the lane into a gorse patch, with breakfast in its mouth.
#Scotland #wildlife #breakfast

"Octopus surge spreads up UK coast as far as Scotland, study finds"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Scotland #Octopus

300th Birthday of James Hutton!
Special Exhibition at Blair Castle, #Scotland, "part of a nation wide celebration of the tercentenary of James #Hutton (1726-1797), the polymath and founder of modern #geology

"Renewable energy saves the EU over €51 billion, Green jobs secure over 100,000 jobs in Scotland"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Scotland

Renewable energy saves the EU over €51 billion
Thanks to solar and wind power, the EU saved around €51 billion on fossil fuel imports in 2025.

No idea what's going on here. Sound up #Scotland

Reading in front of the Forth Bridge.
#SilentSunday #Scotland

Rum’s Dazzling Dark Skies, funded by a grant from the Royal Astronomical Society, reveals the journey of how the #IsleOfRum became the first place in #Scotland to achieve #DarkSky Sanctuary status: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5uXMnVKhvY - see also https://darksky.org/places/isle-of-rum/ and https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/news/watch-new-film-explores-how-rum-became-uks-second-dark-sky-sanctuary and https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2024/oct/24/stargazing-isle-of-rum-scotland-hebrides-dark-sky-sanctuary

"Scottish gannet chick hunt blocked for first time in 400 years"
#Scotland #Animals #Birds

Scottish seabird hunt cancelled for first time in 400 years
NatureScot refuses licence for hunt on Hebridean island of Sula Sgeir in which up to 2,000 gannet chicks are killed

Ahhhw today three years ago in #scotland : a view over #LochLomond
I even blogged about it back then: https://www.…

Clinging on to the clifftop,
where the path drops out of the sunlight.
Dunglass, East Lothian.
#ThickTrunkTuesday #Trees #Scotland

"Scotland’s ‘green datacentres’ policy ignores emissions impact of AI, analysis shows"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Scotland

Sorry, but this is NOT #ai
This is 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #scotland 🐑 🦬 💚

Please sign and share this #petition to prevent an #AIDataCentre from being built in Auchtertool, #Scotland 🙏
One of the most concerning aspects of this project is its eno…

Sign the Petition
Stop the proposed AI data centre near Auchtertool, Fife.

can youse play us wee tune jock....
aye laddie:
#scotland

Wildfire risk is now spreading to cool climates like the Scottish Highlands and Irish uplands #Scotland

Wildfire risk is now spreading to cool climates like the Scottish Highlands and Irish uplands
The most destructive wildfire season on record in Europe was in 2025, with more than 1 million hectares burned and tens of thousands of people displaced by fires across the continent.

"Swathes of Cairngorms unrecognisable after 12 days of ‘cataclysmic’ wildfires"
#Scotland #Wildfires #Climate

Swathes of Cairngorms unrecognisable after 12 days of ‘cataclysmic’ wildfires
With large areas still burning, damage from national park’s worst blaze could take decades, if not longer, to put right

A question for my #FediScot friends: if you were to shortly be driving around Scotland (specifically western Highlands) in an #EV - what apps and maps would you use to find and load up at public chargers?
#AskFedi #Scotland

Solid ash by the remains of a drystone wall, above Stirling, #Scotland.
Seen a lot, will it see off ash dieback? It might well.
#ThickTrunkTuesday

TIL both the Scottish National Party and the Green Party of Scotland are pro-independence from the UK.
They have a majority (73 of 129 seats with 58 to the SNP) in the Scottish Parliament
#independence #scotland #UK #referendum

...das Distelmotiv hat jetzt in ein paar unterschiedlichen handgemalten #wandklexschmuck- Varianten auch in den Klexshop gefunden; dort ist es ab sofort auf #miniaturepainting #thistle #scotland #art #artShop #bloomscrolling

"Scottish medical schools receive £100k for sustainable healthcare training"
#Scotland #Sustainability #Healthcare

Scottish medical schools receive £100k for sustainable healthcare training
A collaboration between Scotland’s five medical schools has received £100,000 from the Scottish Government to support the integration of sustainable healthcare into undergraduate medical degrees.

"Seabed life triples after bottom trawling ban in Scotland protected area"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Scotland #Environment

Seabed life triples after bottom trawling ban in Scotland protected area
Nearly a decade since Scotland established the South Arran Marine Protected Area and banned bottom trawling across much of it, life on the seafloor has thrived, a new study has found. Scientists surveying the area found three times more seabed organisms and twice as many species compared to nearby unprotected waters.           “What looks like […]

#nogenAI #noDataCenters #UK #Scotland
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"Report: Net-zero brings £10bn a year to Scottish economy"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Scotland #NetZero…

Report: Net-zero brings £10bn a year to Scottish economy
In addition to the £10.2bn in Gross Value Added (GVA) to the Scottish economy, net-zero industries also support over 105,000 jobs in the country.

"Scotland could freeze datacentre projects in challenge to UK’s AI strategy"
#Scotland #Technolgy #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

Scotland could freeze datacentre projects in challenge to UK’s AI strategy
Scottish government to consider SNP national council motion for moratorium on all new datacentres

"Making net-zero work for Scottish food and drink"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Scotland #Food