Mc Doug 🌸

your part of the solution and part of the problem your gonna have to dance with one GETTR MCDOUG

[Mc Doug 🌸 @OnexOne76]

Great Day down at the Largs food festival! Scottish Sun,Sea,Food and Bagpipes! #largs #Ayrshire #Scotland

[Mc Doug 🌸 @OnexOne76]

@JamesMelville James we all need a strong movement, we can't see this evil ruin our beautiful scotland forever.

[Mc Doug 🌸 @OnexOne76]

Anyone got car stickers for Say No to Data Centres

[Mc Doug 🌸 @OnexOne76]

@LauraKe37166786 Laura, seriously what are we all going to do 😨

[Mc Doug 🌸 @OnexOne76]

So sad what's about to become of our rugged beautiful landscape 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[Cat Brown 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🚜🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇪 @MrsBr0wn_82]

🚨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🗣 Stop the Data Centre Monster in the Scottish Borders!

A £2 billion industrial scale data centre is being pushed for a beautiful rural spot west of Duns, between Longformacus and Westruther in the Lammermuirs.

Developers call it "Southside" and promise jobs and wind powered operations, but this proposal risks turning one of Scotland’s most stunning landscapes into a concrete eyesore.

Campaigners from Save the Lammermuirs Stop the Data Centre are right to call it what it is a monster.

At 24 metres high, these massive buildings would drain electricity, dominate the views, and fundamentally change the character of this peaceful rural area.

Data centres typically create hundreds of temporary construction jobs, but only a small number of permanent operational jobs once built (often just 25 to 100 staff for maintenance and security). The developers’ claim of ~145 permanent local jobs is still very low for a £2 billion project that would industrialise a large rural site.

Reports from the US highlight further serious concerns constant noise pollution from fans and generators disrupts sleep, causes stress, anxiety, headaches, and other health issues for nearby residents.

Light pollution and habitat disruption harm wildlife affecting both nocturnal animals (like bats and owls) and daytime species (birds, insects, mammals) by interfering with natural behaviours, migration, breeding, and foraging.

This is the wrong development in the wrong place no matter how much they talk about "green roofs" or blending in.

AI needs infrastructure, but not by sacrificing irreplaceable countryside, dark skies, and wildlife habitats that locals and future generations cherish.

We’ve seen this story before: big promises of economic revival that deliver noise, traffic, visual blight, and long term damage to tourism and quality of life, while the real profits flow elsewhere.

What residents can do to reject this proposal:
Attend the public consultations and make your voice heard loud and clear.

Longformacus Village Hall: Thursday (this week), 13:00 to 19:00

Westruther Village Hall: 10 June, 13:00 to 19:00
Contact your Scottish Borders Council councillors and local MSPs immediately urge them to oppose any planning application.

Join or support the Save the Lammermuirs Stop the Data Centre group.

Share this widely, sign petitions if they appear, and rally your neighbours.

This isn’t inevitable.

Strong local opposition can stop irresponsible developments like this. Protect the Borders’ landscape, character, wildlife, and future say NO to the data centre monster.

Comment below and tag your local councillors!

The MP for the area is @John2Win

Links to the Facebook group, petition and planning documents are in the comments.

I have also included a MP template letter you can copy and paste and add relevant information or you draft your own

#SaveTheLammermuirs #StopTheDataCentre #ScottishBorders

[Mc Doug 🌸 @OnexOne76]

@STVNews Never mind just the villagers, the nations is on the verge of revolt

[Mc Doug 🌸 @OnexOne76]

Its time people 🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️🚶‍♀️🧍‍♂️🧍‍♀️🧍‍♂️🧍‍♀️🧍‍♀️🧍‍♂️🧍‍♀️🧍‍♂️🧍‍♀️🪧

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

Farmland is for food, not data centres. You can’t eat AI data.

[Mc Doug 🌸 @OnexOne76]

God love us all, we'll need him

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

There are plans for 17 hyperscale data centres across the country. Scotland doesn’t have the energy capacity for this. Reports suggest that this is larger than winter peak electricity demand for the whole of Scotland.

[Mc Doug 🌸 @OnexOne76]

@Daviddiddny @MrsBr0wn_82 Its literally an alien invasion, does scotland have the rugged backbone to survive this

[Mc Doug 🌸 @OnexOne76]

@thecoastguy It's an alien invasion

[Mc Doug 🌸 @OnexOne76]

@jones_mich99857 @davidicke @Carolemoonbeam Scotlands as saft as shit now, we wont do nothing as usual

[Mc Doug 🌸 @OnexOne76]

@MccailColl Scotlands beauty RIP

[UNN @UnityNewsNet]

These are the planned Data Centres for Scotland alone!

The average centre consumes up to 5 MILLION GALLONS PER DAY which is why they want to locate them to water rich Scotland.

[Mc Doug 🌸 @OnexOne76]

@BGatesIsaPyscho Thing is the scottish fella will probably be arrested for harassment to an illegal.

[Mc Doug 🌸 @OnexOne76]

Britain what have you done @elonmusk

[Rogue @RogueUnfiltered]

‼️‼️BREAKING

This is Llanelli in Wales right now!!!!

Goring Road Llanelli!!

What the fuck!

[Mc Doug 🌸 @OnexOne76]

@JamesMelville Years to come we will remember when Scotland had good clean beautiful drinking water an envy of the world.

[Mc Doug 🌸 @OnexOne76]

God help humanity

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The residents of Auchtertool in Fife are campaigning against a monster AI data centre that is being planned next to their village.

It’s estimated that the 600MW energy consumption with be 20% of Scotland entire energy consumption.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The Scottish people should be deciding this, rather than the smoke and mirrors agreements between government and tech giants.

[Mc Doug 🌸 @OnexOne76]

Thank you 🇵🇱

[Benonwine @benonwine]

Wow this was in Poland the polish people taking the knee for Henry Nowak! 🇵🇱 🇬🇧🙏👏❤️

Just human beings recognising the loss of another human being.

In a world that can often feel cold and divided, moments like this restore a little faith in humanity.

[Mc Doug 🌸 @OnexOne76]

What on earth

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

77 MILLION VOTED FOR THIS 🙄 YOU GUYS MUST BE SO PROUD🤦