🚨🏴🗣 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
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🚨🚨🚨NEW LOCATION AND TIME 🚨🚨🚨
SNP OUT NOW!
Rally outside St Giles, on the Royal Mile,
Sat 28 Mar 2026, 11 for 11.30am start.
The Scottish Parliament WON'T let us hold our rally outside Holyrood, so we've had to change our location and time!
So we're changing it to outside St Giles instead - right beside the official start of the SNP march on the same day!
We'll be telling them:
SNP Your Time is Up! We're Voting for Change!
We're Voting you OUT! We're Saving Scotland!
We're Protecting our Kids and our Future!
Folks, make a date in your diary today – Saturday 28th March, 11 for 11.30am start - outside St Giles, at the Adam Smith statue, on the Royal Mile.
There's going to be a lot of excitement on the day and it's not something to be missed.
It will be THE BIG anti-SNP demo prior to 7th May.
We're going to have some great speakers, and all we're asking is that you bring your enthusiasm and your flags of the British Isles. Let's Raise the Colours once again!
A Force For Good is organising it with our good friends over at @WeSayItPodcast
HOW YOU CAN HELP
Between now and then we're going to be posting regularly. Please share these posts. And please share this one!
And if you can't be there on the day, perhaps you can help us make it happen by dropping in a wee one-off donation via https://t.co/fDOts7bBWO where you can donate one-time, or monthly, quarterly or annually.
Folks, thank you! Let's make this a success and let's help to Shut Down Separatism for another 5 years!
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Fucking well in to every patriot out there tonight standing up for their community.
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