airtScotland is being asked to carry a wave of data-centre load on terms it never set. The gain is private, the cost arrives on your bill, and the meter that should sit between the two is switched off.
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Independent analysis of Scottish governance, infrastructure, and the institutions that run them: the machinery underneath the policy, sourced so you can check it. Each piece is published here in full, with a typeset PDF.
Recent essays
The National Entitlement Card is Scotland’s bus pass, and the largest collection of faces any Scottish public body holds that no biometric regulator watches.
The Lanarkshire AI growth zone, and the gap between the purpose a system advertises and the one it performs.
How Britain built the most expensive industrial electricity in the developed world almost by accident, spent thirty-five years patching the symptoms, and called the latest patch a strategy.
The affordable homes were promised at consent, in the same act that made the land valuable. What was never built was the consequence for not delivering them. A right to buy the land back at close to its old value, when the deadline passes and the homes have not come, is that missing consequence.