Large data centre proposals in Scotland, from pre-application notices to live planning applications and appeals, plus the sites already operating. Each entry shows its council planning record, where one exists, and its other sources by type, so every claim can be checked against more than one publisher.
Circle area scales with MW. Hollow rings have no published capacity. Positions are approximate (town or estate level).
Proposed, in progress and stalled
Schemes from first announcement through to a lodged application, plus those under construction, refused or stalled. Most are large AI campuses still at pre-application, and together they would add many times today's operating capacity.
Operating
Data centres running in Scotland today, mostly colocation, bank and research sites in the Central Belt, Aberdeen and Dundee. Most are small; the largest, DataVita DV1 at Chapelhall, is about 24MW.
Planning and policy timeline
How sources are graded
Each entry lists every source we used, labelled by who published it. An entry counts as corroborated when at least two different publishers report it and at least one of them is not a campaign group or a commercial directory.
GovernmentScottish or UK Government, Parliament, the planning appeals division (DPEA), NESO
CouncilLocal authority planning portal records, news or committee papers. Planning records were searched on each council's portal for "data centre" on 18 Oct 2026.
NoticeStatutory planning notices published in local papers
OperatorThe operator's or developer's own website or press release
NewsNewspapers, broadcasters and trade press
CampaignCampaign groups and petitions, including the APRS tracker
DirectoryCommercial data centre listings and property agents
Some news sites block automated link checks, but every link here was found through search and checked on 18 Oct 2026; none returned "not found".
Press and media
For journalists
An independent, sourced record of data centre proposals in Scotland. You are welcome to use the figures and data, with a credit. Every number on the site links to where it came from, so please check the original source before you publish.
Key figures
31
data centre schemes proposed, in planning or stalled, including sites known only from the grid connection queue
10,267 MW
their combined capacity, where published (5 schemes have no figure, so this is a minimum)
36.4 MW
operating today across 16 sites
67–90 TWh a year
what they would use a year if every one were built, from typical use to full capacity. Scotland used 21.7 TWh in 2024. Many schemes will not go ahead, so treat this as the size of the pipeline, not a forecast
6
schemes with a live planning application or appeal
10,905
formal objections lodged on council portals across the schemes we track
85,331
signatures on petitions against specific schemes or data centres generally
1,000 MW
the largest single scheme, Chapelcross (CX Technology Campus)
Worked out live from the tracker's data, so they change as schemes are added or updated. Data as of the date shown at the top of the homepage. Electricity figures use the method in How sizes are banded.
Download the data
One row per scheme: stage, capacity, developer, council, location, planning reference, jobs claimed, objections, support comments, petition signatures and a link to its page.
Developer figures are their own claims. Locations marked approximate are at town or estate level. Map data in the download is under the Open Database Licence; see Credits below.
How to credit the site
Source: Scotland’s Data Centre Map and Tracker, accessed 25 October 2026.
Please name the original source too where a figure comes from a council, government or company document; the tracker's pages link to each one.
Using the maps
Screenshots of the site's maps can be used with the credit above and the map credit shown in the corner of each map.
Company logos belong to their owners and are shown only to identify each company's projects. Please don't reuse them from this site.
Balance and corrections
The tracker does not take a side. Each scheme's page sets out the developer's case and the objectors' case, and claims from both are checked the same way. Corrections are made promptly and noted. See About for how the site is put together and its limits.