Notices by Scottish Greens (scottishgreens@mastodon.scot)

Scotland's facing a wave of hyper-scale data centre applications.

If built they'd consume more than 1.5 times our peak electricity use, with no requirement to assess their environmental impact.

We need to ensure our economy works for everyone, not just tech billionaires.

➡️ https://greens.scot/datacentres

Andy Burnham must end the UK's participation in Donald Trump's disastrous and dangerous war on Iran immediately.

Our airports should not be used as staging posts for US wars of aggression that make us all less safe.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/26402717.andy-burnham-urged-ban-us-forces-scottish-airports/

Andy Burnham's first act as Prime Minister is one of environmental vandalism.

New oil and gas fields won't lower bills. This is a fact.

If we want to lower bills, create jobs, and improve our national security we need serious investment in cheap, clean renewable energy.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c935yx2z9d4o

There are 24 hyperscale data centre applications in Scotland.

If they're all built they'll consume over 1.5 times the peak energy demand of the entire country.

We urgently need a pause to develop a national approach that works for people and planet, not just tech billionaires.

Add your voice 👇
https://greens.scot/datacentres

Scotland is facing a wave of hyper-scale AI data centre planning applications.

If all the data centres are built, they will consume more than 1.5 times Scotland’s total peak energy use.

✍️Write to the First Minister and demand a pause of mega data centre applications https://greens.scot/datacentres

Scotland should not allow war criminals or fascists to profit from our land or our people.

It's time to seize Trump's golf courses.

Peace is not only threatened by war-mongering regimes like Russia, Israel and the US, but also by food and water insecurity and the climate crisis.

Throwing even more money into the pockets of arms company bosses isn’t going to make the UK any more secure.

This shouldn't be normal. But what we're seeing in the UK and across Europe this week is no longer a one-off event.

We're constantly seeing new extreme weather records broken, putting people at risk.

Without change we'll all pay the price.

Schools closed, events cancelled, travel warnings, and lives lost.

This is the direct result of political choices made in our parliaments.

The cost of climate inaction is incalculable.

Scotland is facing a wave of applications for hyperscale data centres.

If the 24 announced so far were approved they'd take up more than 1.5 times Scotland's peak demand in electricity.

We need an immediate pause until a clear national strategy is set out.

👉 Add your voice: https://greens.scot/datacentres

In 2022 we delivered free bus travel for everyone under the age of 22.

Today it was announced that over 300 million journeys have been taken under the scheme!

Now it's time to go further.

Making bus travel free for all is one of the simplest, quickest and most effective steps we can take to build a fairer, greener Scotland.

1 in 9 Scottish species are at risk of extinction, including Scottish Wildcats.

But this is now the third consecutive year of wild births, which follow the release of 19 captive bred wildcats into the Cairngorms in 2023!

Every birth takes them a step closer to safety. 💚

Protest isn't terrorism.

The UK Labour Government are taking more action against people holding signs than those complicit in genocide. 🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Reform UK have promoted hate and racism, not just online, but on our streets and in our parliament.

Scotland must stand together against their hate.

Real change isn't going to be delivered by the status quo Labour Party - no matter the leader. 🥀

It's no surprise that yet another Labour politician is happy to cosplay as a socialist, but will mimic the worst of Tory policies to gain power.

🚨 An AI data centre in Fife could be built without a proper environmental assessment!

This can't be allowed to happen. Scottish Greens MSP Mark Ruskell is calling on Fife Council to reject these monstrous proposals.

✈️Private jet flights are 30 times more polluting than regular flights.

After years of campaigning from Scottish Green MSPs, the Scottish Government is set to introduce a private jet tax!

Pride is a celebration and a protest. Greens will always stand in solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community as we fight for:

🏳️🌈A ban on conversion therapy
🏳️🌈End the Gender Recognition Reform block
🏳️🌈Improve trans healthcare provision
🏳️🌈Create a kinder, fairer country for all

Donald Trump has shown complete contempt for Scottish and international law.

It's time for the Scottish Government to act and kick US troops out of our publicly owned airports.

Decisions about Scotland should be made by the people who live here.

There’s a clear pro-independence majority in the Scottish Parliament and that majority voted for a referendum.

For politicians in London to deny that choice is a democratic outrage.