🚨🏴 Urgent Warning for Lanarkshire Residents Protect Our Greenbelt from AI Data Centre and Solar Farm Developments
Lanarkshire faces major threats from large scale AI data centre expansion and associated solar farms on protected greenbelt land.
These projects risk irreversible damage to our countryside farmland and communities in the Airdrie Chapelhall Newarthill areas.
The AI Growth Zone centred around DataVita in Chapelhall targets hundreds of megawatts of power hungry facilities.
Plans involve massive expansions on greenbelt sites totalling hundreds of hectares. Nearby a large solar farm is proposed right by the new University Hospital Monklands at Wester Moffat in Airdrie.
These two major sites are only around three miles apart and sit very close together in the same local area with the data centre and its energy infrastructure directly impacting the same green spaces and communities.
The official narrative claims these AI data centres are being built on disused industrial sites. Does this look like an industrial site to you? The images show clearly productive greenbelt farmland not brownfield industrial land.
Note that a smaller extension DV3 at the existing DataVita site received Planning Permission in Principle on 9 January 2026 under application 25/01159/PPP.
However the much larger proposed developments on greenbelt land remain in early stages with no full approvals yet giving residents time to object.
Key Dangers Include:
●Loss of precious greenbelt agricultural land to industrial development forever changing our rural landscape.
●Huge increases in power consumption.
AI data centres demand enormous electricity often straining the grid and requiring more renewable infrastructure that itself covers farmland.
● Massive water usage for cooling servers. Data centres already consume vast amounts of water in Scotland and this will worsen putting pressure on local supplies.
●Environmental harm from construction noise visual intrusion habitat loss and long term industrial presence in green areas.
It is also concerning that while North Lanarkshire Council and others maintain anti slavery and modern slavery policies in their procurement and operations the push for solar farms across Scotland relies heavily on solar panels largely produced in China.
China has well documented issues with forced labour particularly involving Uyghur communities in the solar supply chain.
This raises serious questions about consistency with their own anti slavery commitments.
These projects promise jobs but the reality for local residents is more industrialisation fewer green spaces and higher resource strain while benefits often flow elsewhere.
We must act now to protect our area.
✊🏼Plan of Action to Show
Rejection:
Contact your local councillors and North Lanarkshire Council planners immediately to object to applications citing greenbelt protection environmental impacts water power concerns and potential conflicts with anti slavery policies.
View and submit comments on the North Lanarkshire Council planning portal at https://t.co/jexi7frVVW by searching for relevant applications including 25/01159/PPP and future ones.
Attend public consultations and planning meetings voice your opposition in numbers.
Share this message widely with neighbours family and community groups to build awareness.
Write to your MSPs and MPs demanding full transparency and proper environmental assessments before any approvals.
Support local campaign groups like APRS calling for better scrutiny of these developments.
Together we can push back and demand development that respects our greenbelt and communities rather than sacrificing them.
Our countryside is not for unchecked industrial grab. Speak up today.
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