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This data centre in Texas shows how enormous they can be. Picture: Brandon Bell

Why Scotland shouldn't let data centres become a national pariah
Data centres should only be allowed if they meet high environmental standards and are located in the right places, but it’s clear we need them
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The Scottish government is working to build public trust and confidence in artificial intelligence. Picture: Hector Retamal

Scotland can't be so afraid of AI that it loses £23 billion GDP boost Alyn Smith

Experts worry that artificial intelligence is blurring the boundaries between reality and fiction, handing cybercriminals a cheap and effective technology to exploit. Picture: Chris Delmas

That desperate call from your daughter may have been AI cybercriminal Ronald Hepburn

Scottish medtech firm hails US breakthrough in £13bn robotic surgery market

Quantum computers would be far faster than traditional ones Picture: Patrick Lux

How quantum computing breakthrough could help supercharge AI bots Scotsman comment

Tech

Taxpayer-backed SNIB leads £3.4m funding for Glasgow robotic surgery specialist

ScotGov’s Techscaler sends founders on investor missions to London and Paris

Edinburgh tech firm’s rail defect system aims to keep trains running smoothly

Eight in ten Scottish firms see productivity boost from AI but human touch vital

Start up Scale up

Grocery delivery platform gets snappy with seven-figure Virgin Money facility

Kevin Havelock is mid-market champion for Royal Bank of Scotland, part of NatWest Group.

‘Conversion gap’ holding back growth for 4,400 Scottish mid-market businesses

Broadcaster and founder of SAIRA Saira Khan, co-founder and CEO of SuperScalers Sam Smith, founder and chair of Pathways Forward Ana Stewart, entrepreneur and author Sahar Hashemi OBE, founder of Ooni Darina Garland, CEO of ScaleUp Institute Irene Graham OBE. Picture by Anna Moffat

Hundreds of female entrepreneurs and leaders gather for Edinburgh growth summit

‘Pivotal moment’ as Scottish underwater monitoring scale-up secures £2.6 million

Innovators

A prototype Scensai sensor.

Handheld ‘electronic nose’ that could transform drinks industry given top award

Edinburgh firm’s modular GPS sports watch to take on might of Apple and Garmin

Scottish biotech pioneer set to break ground on ‘peat-free’ production plant

SNIB-backed Edinburgh tech pioneer PureLiFi collapses with loss of 42 jobs

Big Ideas

The Calling summit promises to unlock Scotland’s leadership potential

Heriot-Watt PhD students Arran Sykes and Harmony Li in conversation regarding a quantum sensing system. Picture: Chris Watt Photography/Heriot-Watt University

How a Scottish university is developing the 'near unhackable' quantum internet

'We're just scratching the surface with this, so the potential for growth is there,' says Greenock of Go Swag. Picture: contributed.

How this entrepreneur aims to turn gift boxes into the next Scottish unicorn

The grand front entrance of the new Edinburgh Futures Institute, the result of a major 'recycling' project which has transformed the historical Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh building into a state-of-the-art innovation hub and public space

Inside story: Look what happened to Edinburgh’s grand old Royal Infirmary

Data

Karen Meechan, the ScotlandIS chief executive, pictured at the ScotSoft conference in 2023. Picture: Greg Macvean

Scotland’s digital tech leader on how to grow a £7.5 billion industry

Murray Collins is one of the founders of Edinburgh's Space Intelligence. Picture: Andrea Thomson Photography

Edinburgh firm that maps the world's forests from space eyes new horizons

The University of Edinburgh has been at the forefront of supercomputing for decades.

Axed: £800m Edinburgh University supercomputer victim of Labour spending cuts

The growth in fintech comes as more and more of us switch to digital banking to manage a range of services such as savings, investments and pensions.

FinTech Scotland Festival: Where and what is taking place in 2024

FinTech

Details of ninth FinTech Scotland Festival revealed

Fast-growing Edinburgh fintech secures £10m at ‘pivotal stage’ of expansion

Scots fintechs partner to simplify onboarding in UK financial services sector

Funding boost for fintechs looking to help people make better financial choices

Life Sciences

Ad Feature Why training wins glory but nutrition delivers results for physique

Edinburgh spinout secures £1.2 million to advance hormone treatments

Glasgow life sciences firm gets £19m boost in one of largest deals of its kind

Edinburgh Uni spin-out at cutting edge of cancer research gets £1.6m injection

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