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Amid a wave of proposals for hyperscale and AI data centres across Scotland, Foundation for Gaia warns of the lack of regulatory oversight and the strain these facilities place on local energy grids and ecosystems, and sets out three core demands for the national guidance to come.
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Scotland has 24 proposals for major new data centres in or approaching the planning system, which together would draw more than one and a half times the country's peak power use. Foundation for Gaia sets out eight recommendations for the national guidance the Scottish Government has committed to publish, with a full annex of evidence.
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In her first address to the Human Rights Council, the new Special Rapporteur on toxics and human rights warned that poor management of toxic chemicals and hazardous waste threatens many, if not all, human rights. Foundation for Gaia urges her to include the chemicals and waste linked to data centres in her work.
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Data centres now use almost a quarter of Ireland's electricity, nearly as much as every home in the country combined. Yet Microsoft refused to let a UN Special Rapporteur visit its Dublin data centre. Foundation for Gaia called on governments to make data centres part of Ireland's review on 10 November.
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A plain guide to the environmental issues on the agenda at the Council's 63rd session: toxic chemicals, water and sanitation, Indigenous Peoples, artificial intelligence, and five years of the right to a healthy environment. Plus the resolutions to watch and who is leading them.
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Foundation for Gaia urges the UN Human Rights Council to protect the integrity of its Universal Periodic Review by making sure the United States is reviewed on 10 November 2026, whether or not the US government takes part.
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Foundation for Gaia welcomed the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination's call for Finland to stop approving energy and mining projects on Sámi lands without free, prior and informed consent, but warned that the findings make no mention of data centres, even though the industry expects them to add significantly to Finland's electricity demand.
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