First, the ‘Who’.

To answer that we must first understand what ‘Data’ is.

Data, is just information, facts and figures. That being so, the ‘Who’ is obvious, those behind these centres are the biggest Tech companies. The main players appear to be, Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Meta. The finance for this big push comes from various investors but mainly Blackstone. This should not come as a surprise as a number of politicians both Scottish and English have appeared in the press having meetings with them.

Now the ‘Why’.

At present most of our data is kept in the ‘cloud’ by these companies, so why do they need more space, and so much of it?

The answer is AI.

AI is going to become our nemesis!

It may be fun to use it to make funny videos, but behind it lies a more sinister idea.

What we once thought was just science fiction is about to become real, but not in a good way! This is not about improving our lives, but controlling them…and they need every bit of information about us to do that.

15-min cities are on the agenda!

By the end of this exercise, they will know everything about us, and I mean everything! Not just our financial information or medical information. Therefore, they will, be able to predict our every movement, how we spend our money and even our thinking!! Human robots under their control.

When they know everything you are going to do, they can plan accordingly and unknowingly force you down certain paths. All of which are profitable to the big companies.

Control and profits are the end goal!

The ‘What’

This is about the centres themselves. They need these gigantic buildings to house and run these massive computers. Sound okay to you? Well, think again, particularly about how they are run. We are not talking housing one or two huge computers, but racks of them, all stored on top of each other, all gathering information about you and others, then distributing that information to various others centres around the world to be analyzed.

In the USA it has been proved that the heat they generate can even affect local weather, and the water needed to cool them is astronomical, again affecting the water needed by communities to survive. And guess what, if there is a water shortage…guess who gets priority!!…not the people, thanks to the previous deals within SEZs!

Remember these?

This has been in the planning for years, and the jigsaw is now coming together!

Climate change policies have flown out of the window, replaced by corporate governance and greed.

All this in the name of AI, which has already proven to be unreliable.

So, what do we get out of all this?

In short nothing! Maybe some jobs in construction.

Do they offer efficiency…well even if they did, does it justify the expense, the secrecy and the environmental damage?

People all over the world are starting to realise the negatives and they are huge and they are saying NO.

Again, in the States, politicians are being ‘recalled’ and sacked for supporting these centres!

If our FM goes back on his promised moratorium, a stand must be taken one way or another and I’m not sure a protest will cut it.