"New datacenters planned in Scotland would collectively require 75 percent as much energy as the entire country currently consumes, according to tech campaign group Foxglove. The nonprofit says its research [PDF] indicates that 11 hyperscale bit barns planned for construction across Scotland (bit bothies?) would require a total of 2,000 to 3,000 MW of electricity to operate, while the current peak demand for the country is 4 gigawatts (4,000 MW)."
"Not all the developers list the expected capacity of their datacenters once operational, so the researchers used an estimate of 250 MW each for the three facilities planned by developer ILI Group and another by Apatura. All of the others fell between 200 and 300 MW, with the exception of the 550 MW campus at Ravenscraig in North Lanarkshire to be built by Apatura."
Eleven hyperscale datacenters proposed across Scotland would require an estimated 2,000–3,000 MW of electricity, compared with a current winter peak gross demand of just over 4 GW. Researchers estimated capacities where developers did not disclose figures, using 250 MW for several sites and noting a 550 MW campus at Ravenscraig. If all facilities are built, total datacenter demand could approach roughly 3 GW and substantially increase national electricity consumption. NESO reports current generation capacity in Scotland is just under 20 GW and projects peak demand to remain below 5 GW by 2030 across scenarios.
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