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Holyrood votes to pause new AI datacentre planning approvals for up to a year

MSPs backed a Scottish Labour motion requiring strict environmental impact assessments before new hyperscale facilities can proceed, pending a national strategy

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The Scottish Parliament has voted to suspend planning decisions on new artificial intelligence datacentres for up to 12 months while the Scottish government develops a national strategy for the sector, according to the Guardian.

MSPs on Wednesday backed a motion put forward by Scottish Labour that calls for a halt to new datacentre schemes until strict environmental impact assessments and rules governing hyperscale facilities are put in place, the report said.

The vote means applications for new AI datacentres in Scotland will effectively be paused while the Scottish government works out how such projects should be regulated and assessed for their environmental impact.

The Guardian described the move as a potential setback for the British government's broader ambitions on artificial intelligence, given the role Scotland has been expected to play in hosting the energy-intensive infrastructure needed to power the AI boom.

Hyperscale datacentres, which underpin much of the computing power behind AI systems, have drawn scrutiny over their demands on electricity and water supplies as well as their environmental footprint, concerns that appear to have driven the Holyrood vote.

The Scottish government has not yet published the national strategy that MSPs say must be in place before new datacentre applications can move forward, according to the report.

Further details on the timeline for the strategy, and on how the suspension will be implemented in practice, were not immediately available.

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