A datacentre company that said it would power a massive AI development near Glasgow with renewable energy has admitted that the scheme will be entirely served by the National Grid.

The company remains in receipt of £202m of public money in the form of wealth guarantees from Britain’s national wealth fund.

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    3 days ago

    Now DataVita, which was supposed to bring 3,400 jobs to Lanarkshire by building a 500MW datacentre

    How the hell is a single data centre expected to bring 3,400 jobs?! Sounds like DataVita’s claims across the board need to be reviewed.

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      Safe bet that the temporary jobs that only exist during construction are in that total, which makes the whole thing horseshit.