This is an episode that I really wanted to record and promote.

Jonathan Leitch and others are campaigning against plans to build a massive Data Centre right next to a tiny village community in Fife in Scotland. He talks about the intimidating scale of it.

It is a story of how greed and a blind faith in the value of artificial intelligence can threaten a community. It is also a story about how a campaign, even on this David vs Goliath scale, can have some success. Jonathan and his colleagues have achieved a pause. It is a success but it is not enough. They want a moratorium on the creation of centres on this scale until the full implications are clear. I think we should all want that. Creating facilities which demand unimaginable amounts of water and power, dominate landscapes and dwarf communities on the basis of limited knowledge, at best, is a remarkable gamble.

This is very much a story of people taking action. It is one about the importance of community and connection and these are key themes for this series, even if we don't spend much time discussing trauma and ACEs in this episode . Ultimately it is another conversation about the sort of country we want to live in and whether or not we will prioritise the needs of people over the interests of large companies and capital.

You can find out more about the plans here https://aprs.scot/auchtertool-dc/

and find the campaign Facebook page here https://www.facebook.com/groups/1472242997516977/?ref=share&rdid=36VbLMN7AoVt3lgs&share_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fshare%2Fg%2F1EUxMHg23g%2F