"It's a short sighted money-grab," he said when asked about a boom in applications to build AI data centres across Scotland, including one in Auchtertool. There are currently 24 sites where AI data centres are being proposed. "We must not allow outside corporations to exploit our green ambitions by proposing industrial-scale AI data centres beside residential homes, care homes and hospitals." He added that "we MUST 'Say No To Scotland AI Data Centres'", a reference to the campaign groups attempting to rally against the proposals. Emerging research suggests the environment around data centres in the US can be heated by 2-4 degrees Celsius.