{"id":123,"date":"2026-09-03T17:48:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T17:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/03\/hundreds-protest-scottish-datacentre-expansion-at-holyrood\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T17:48:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T17:48:48","slug":"hundreds-protest-scottish-datacentre-expansion-at-holyrood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/03\/hundreds-protest-scottish-datacentre-expansion-at-holyrood\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds Protest Scottish Datacentre Expansion at Holyrood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition has intensified against Scotland&#8217;s rapid expansion of datacentres, with hundreds gathering outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh to demand an immediate halt to the industry&#8217;s growth. The protest was sparked in part by at least 20 proposed projects, including a facility in Auchtertool, Fife, which has been described as the second largest in the world.<\/p>\n<p>At the rally, Kat Jones led the demonstrators. Standing near Arthur\u2019s Seat, she energized the crowd, calling out to attendees from across the country, including Lammermuir, Ayrshire, and Aberdeen, to underscore the nationwide reach of the concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters gathered at Holyrood urging the Scottish government to pause the datacentre boom, including a proposed mega-project in Fife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[324,326,325,231,323,10],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-datacentres","tag-environment","tag-holyrood","tag-protests","tag-scotland","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}