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Scottish village to be ‘terrorised’ by 115ft data centres
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9:28Now PlayingProtests are being organised over plans to build a supersized AI data centre beside a small village in Scotland, LBC's learned.
The 'Cato' site neighboring sleepy Auchtertool in Fife would be comparable with some of the world's biggest data campuses in the likes of Nevada.
Its total power capacity of 600MW would be just 50MW less than the 'Citadel' there, and projections suggest it could use up to 4000GWh every year, equivalent to the energy used by half of all households in Scotland. It could also use the same amount of water every year as 239 homes.
The ILI Group behind it has indicated it would build a complex of data hall buildings - some the same height as eight double decker buses (35m) - within a proposed site the size of 100 football pitches.
That would be bigger than the entire village of just over 200 homes it would sit beside.
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