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🌀 RAHU IN ALL 12 HOUSES
(+ Impact on the 5th & 9th Houses from Rahu)
1️⃣ Rahu in the 1st House
➜ Creates a powerful, ambitious and magnetic personality.
➜ Strong desire for fame, recognition and independence.
➜ Native constantly reinvents themselves throughout life.
➜ 5th from Rahu (5H) → Intelligence, creativity, children and speculation become major obsessions.
➜ 9th from Rahu (9H) → Breaks traditional beliefs and creates an unconventional spiritual path.
(+ Impact on the 5th & 9th Houses from Rahu)
1️⃣ Rahu in the 1st House
➜ Creates a powerful, ambitious and magnetic personality.
➜ Strong desire for fame, recognition and independence.
➜ Native constantly reinvents themselves throughout life.
➜ 5th from Rahu (5H) → Intelligence, creativity, children and speculation become major obsessions.
➜ 9th from Rahu (9H) → Breaks traditional beliefs and creates an unconventional spiritual path.
2️⃣ Rahu in the 2nd House
➜ Strong desire to build wealth and financial security.
➜ Speech becomes influential, persuasive or controversial.
➜ Family karma becomes an important life lesson.
➜ 5th from Rahu (6H) → Success comes by defeating competitors and solving difficult problems.
➜ 9th from Rahu (10H) → Career becomes the biggest source of growth and recognition.
➜ Strong desire to build wealth and financial security.
➜ Speech becomes influential, persuasive or controversial.
➜ Family karma becomes an important life lesson.
➜ 5th from Rahu (6H) → Success comes by defeating competitors and solving difficult problems.
➜ 9th from Rahu (10H) → Career becomes the biggest source of growth and recognition.
3️⃣ Rahu in the 3rd House
➜ Fearless communicator with strong entrepreneurial abilities.
➜ Excels in media, business, marketing and networking.
➜ Takes bold risks that others avoid.
➜ 5th from Rahu (7H) → Partnerships become the key to success.
➜ 9th from Rahu (11H) → Large networks and multiple income sources bring prosperity.
➜ Fearless communicator with strong entrepreneurial abilities.
➜ Excels in media, business, marketing and networking.
➜ Takes bold risks that others avoid.
➜ 5th from Rahu (7H) → Partnerships become the key to success.
➜ 9th from Rahu (11H) → Large networks and multiple income sources bring prosperity.
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ScienceGuardians™ Audit Report – Arnold Ventures LLC (formerly Laura and John Arnold Foundation)
This report presents an audit of Arnold Ventures’ research integrity funding ecosystem from 2013 onward, examining how its funds, resources, institutional support, and philanthropic credibility reached fraudulent organizations and individuals—including initiatives such as PubPeer and Retraction Watch—that, according to our investigation, exploited those resources under the guise of “research integrity,” and identifying the governance, oversight, due diligence, and accountability failures that allowed this to occur.
The report summarizes the findings of the ScienceGuardians™ Legal and Investigative Team following an extensive review of the available evidence.
🧵 Key findings below.
ScienceGuardians™ Audit Report – Arnold Ventures LLC (formerly Laura and John Arnold Foundation)
This report presents an audit of Arnold Ventures’ research integrity funding ecosystem from 2013 onward, examining how its funds, resources, institutional support, and philanthropic credibility reached fraudulent organizations and individuals—including initiatives such as PubPeer and Retraction Watch—that, according to our investigation, exploited those resources under the guise of “research integrity,” and identifying the governance, oversight, due diligence, and accountability failures that allowed this to occur.
The report summarizes the findings of the ScienceGuardians™ Legal and Investigative Team following an extensive review of the available evidence.
🧵 Key findings below.
1/7 🚨 Background: Allegations and Scope of Investigation
According to our investigation, a malicious parasitic machinery operating under the guise of research integrity has caused severe damage to academia by eroding trust in science, disempowering the academic community, and interfering with legitimate scientific discourse.
⚠️ This network—referred to as the PubPeer “PubSmear”* Network Mob—comprises non-profit organizations that have been exposed as fraudulent, including the PubPeer Foundation and Retraction Watch (both largely funded by Arnold Ventures, formerly the Laura and John Arnold Foundation), as well as around 30 fraudulent individuals and their affiliated blogs and commercial companies.
* (PubSmear — a term used to describe PubPeer, a post-publication peer review platform that has been extensively abused as a tool to harass, smear, and defame members of the academic community for personal, commercial, and institutional interests; the term was officially entered into the United States Congressional Record on 3 June 2026.)
These activities have frequently been carried out through coordinated campaigns aimed at forcing retractions, institutional actions, and the destruction of scientific reputations, while operating under the guise of “research integrity,” but in reality for personal, commercial, and institutional gain.
According to our investigation, a malicious parasitic machinery operating under the guise of research integrity has caused severe damage to academia by eroding trust in science, disempowering the academic community, and interfering with legitimate scientific discourse.
⚠️ This network—referred to as the PubPeer “PubSmear”* Network Mob—comprises non-profit organizations that have been exposed as fraudulent, including the PubPeer Foundation and Retraction Watch (both largely funded by Arnold Ventures, formerly the Laura and John Arnold Foundation), as well as around 30 fraudulent individuals and their affiliated blogs and commercial companies.
* (PubSmear — a term used to describe PubPeer, a post-publication peer review platform that has been extensively abused as a tool to harass, smear, and defame members of the academic community for personal, commercial, and institutional interests; the term was officially entered into the United States Congressional Record on 3 June 2026.)
These activities have frequently been carried out through coordinated campaigns aimed at forcing retractions, institutional actions, and the destruction of scientific reputations, while operating under the guise of “research integrity,” but in reality for personal, commercial, and institutional gain.
2/7 🔱 Initiation of ScienceGuardians™ Investigation (7 April 2025 onward)
📅 Beginning on 7 April 2025, we at ScienceGuardians™ began exposing what we concluded to be fraud, corruption, and criminal activities conducted for years under the guise of research integrity by this network.
🔍 Our investigation focused on identifying structural links between:
• PubPeer Foundation
• Retraction Watch / Center for Scientific Integrity
• Center for Open Science (COS)
• Sense About Science USA
• Around 30 individuals and their affiliated blogs and commercial companies.
We concluded that these entities formed an interconnected ecosystem through common funding, shared collaborations, overlapping leadership, and coordinated infrastructure.
📌 Before continuing with the ScienceGuardians™ Audit Report on Arnold Ventures LLC (formerly the Laura and John Arnold Foundation), we invite readers to first understand the mission, methodology, and resources behind ScienceGuardians™.
🔱 ScienceGuardians™ — the first fully verified journal club and post-publication peer review platform
Built to promote transparency, accountability, and education in research, ScienceGuardians™ provides a verified environment for constructive scientific discussion and integrity-focused collaboration.
🌐 scienceguardians.com
We also provide free, field-ready resources designed to empower researchers and strengthen research integrity practices:
🔱 Ethics Guidelines, Tools, and Training Resources
🌐 scienceguardians.com/docs/main/
📢 Join the community for free, become a ScienceGuardian, and help advance a more transparent and accountable scientific ecosystem.
Follow us at @SciGuardians and share this thread to help others discover independent resources for research integrity.
📅 Beginning on 7 April 2025, we at ScienceGuardians™ began exposing what we concluded to be fraud, corruption, and criminal activities conducted for years under the guise of research integrity by this network.
🔍 Our investigation focused on identifying structural links between:
• PubPeer Foundation
• Retraction Watch / Center for Scientific Integrity
• Center for Open Science (COS)
• Sense About Science USA
• Around 30 individuals and their affiliated blogs and commercial companies.
We concluded that these entities formed an interconnected ecosystem through common funding, shared collaborations, overlapping leadership, and coordinated infrastructure.
📌 Before continuing with the ScienceGuardians™ Audit Report on Arnold Ventures LLC (formerly the Laura and John Arnold Foundation), we invite readers to first understand the mission, methodology, and resources behind ScienceGuardians™.
🔱 ScienceGuardians™ — the first fully verified journal club and post-publication peer review platform
Built to promote transparency, accountability, and education in research, ScienceGuardians™ provides a verified environment for constructive scientific discussion and integrity-focused collaboration.
🌐 scienceguardians.com
We also provide free, field-ready resources designed to empower researchers and strengthen research integrity practices:
🔱 Ethics Guidelines, Tools, and Training Resources
🌐 scienceguardians.com/docs/main/
📢 Join the community for free, become a ScienceGuardian, and help advance a more transparent and accountable scientific ecosystem.
Follow us at @SciGuardians and share this thread to help others discover independent resources for research integrity.
Last day of Fable in your Claude subscription - less than 16 hours to go!
Here's 3 apps I built with Fable, each in a couple hours. Prompts and workflows in thread. Go build something, quick!
Here's 3 apps I built with Fable, each in a couple hours. Prompts and workflows in thread. Go build something, quick!
1/ Conversational AI calorie tracker with cool 3D visuals
Here's the whole breakdown and prompts I used to build most of the app: x.com/anshuc/status/…
And here's a deep dive on the 3D part: x.com/anshuc/status/…
Here's the whole breakdown and prompts I used to build most of the app: x.com/anshuc/status/…
And here's a deep dive on the 3D part: x.com/anshuc/status/…
2/ Infinite explorable 3D universe
Original post: x.com/anshuc/status/…
You'll need API keys for some text-to-image and image-to-3D APIs (I used OpenAI GPT Image 2 and fal.ai with hunyuan-3d/v3.1/pro/image-to-3d). Put these in a file that your terminal/Claude environment can access (or paste them into Claude Code if you're feeling like yoloing it)
You'll also need some way for Claude to operate a browser if you want it to be able to test and verify its work (I used agent-browser CLI, but you could use Playwright or whatever you want).
I used this prompt to one-shot it:
```
I want you to build an infinite, explorable universe using Three JS in browser. You have access to OpenAI and Fal API keys in your environment. Use OpenAI GPT Images 2 to generate 2D textures wherever needed. For 3D assets, take 2D generated images of characters and use Fal with the fal-ai/hunyuan-3d/v3.1/pro/image-to-3d model to turn them into 3D. I want all of the visuals to look cinematic, photorealistic, and beautiful - make it look like a AAA game.
I want it to have a consistent lore/story, so write down the details of this and the characters in one reference you can continually use to make sure the universe makes sense. The player should be able to explore as much as they want, fly anywhere, and land on most planets to explore the surface. There should be interesting characters everywhere that they can interact with. I want the universe to feel like it's teeming with life, not boring and empty.
Don't ask questions - interpret this however you want and show me what you're capable of. Push the boundaries of what can be done in browser. Verify all your work end to end using the agent-browser CLI before ending your turn.
```
Original post: x.com/anshuc/status/…
You'll need API keys for some text-to-image and image-to-3D APIs (I used OpenAI GPT Image 2 and fal.ai with hunyuan-3d/v3.1/pro/image-to-3d). Put these in a file that your terminal/Claude environment can access (or paste them into Claude Code if you're feeling like yoloing it)
You'll also need some way for Claude to operate a browser if you want it to be able to test and verify its work (I used agent-browser CLI, but you could use Playwright or whatever you want).
I used this prompt to one-shot it:
```
I want you to build an infinite, explorable universe using Three JS in browser. You have access to OpenAI and Fal API keys in your environment. Use OpenAI GPT Images 2 to generate 2D textures wherever needed. For 3D assets, take 2D generated images of characters and use Fal with the fal-ai/hunyuan-3d/v3.1/pro/image-to-3d model to turn them into 3D. I want all of the visuals to look cinematic, photorealistic, and beautiful - make it look like a AAA game.
I want it to have a consistent lore/story, so write down the details of this and the characters in one reference you can continually use to make sure the universe makes sense. The player should be able to explore as much as they want, fly anywhere, and land on most planets to explore the surface. There should be interesting characters everywhere that they can interact with. I want the universe to feel like it's teeming with life, not boring and empty.
Don't ask questions - interpret this however you want and show me what you're capable of. Push the boundaries of what can be done in browser. Verify all your work end to end using the agent-browser CLI before ending your turn.
```
🏛️ We’re unveiling a new way to converse with the ancient world.
By grounding Gemini directly in our expert models Aeneas and Ithaca, our Predicting the Past Skill in Google @antigravity lets historians study Greek and Latin texts using plain English. 🧵
By grounding Gemini directly in our expert models Aeneas and Ithaca, our Predicting the Past Skill in Google @antigravity lets historians study Greek and Latin texts using plain English. 🧵
Using AI for history analysis has 3 core challenges:
🔹 Creating custom analysis and visuals for every inscription.
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🔹 Utilizing advanced AI tools with no coding skills.
Our Antigravity skill shifts all these complex workflows into plain English.
🔹 Creating custom analysis and visuals for every inscription.
🔹 Cross-source mapping to find large-scale patterns.
🔹 Utilizing advanced AI tools with no coding skills.
Our Antigravity skill shifts all these complex workflows into plain English.
The Predicting the Past Skill is a collaborative research partner. 🏛️
We teamed up with @TSommerschield on 3️⃣ case studies to prove it. By blending specialized AI with Gemini’s reasoning, we showed how historians can explore ancient data in entirely new ways.
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We teamed up with @TSommerschield on 3️⃣ case studies to prove it. By blending specialized AI with Gemini’s reasoning, we showed how historians can explore ancient data in entirely new ways.
Explore the platform → goo.gle/4vR5ZtC
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🚨NEW: Federal agents just busted a massive SNAP fraud ring in Los Angeles:
Over $1 MILLION in fraudulent food stamps purchases at a single Skid Row bodega. 🧵
Over $1 MILLION in fraudulent food stamps purchases at a single Skid Row bodega. 🧵
Investigators identified the small grocery store as a potential target for fraud after it processed $732,608.26 in SNAP purchases from April 2025 to April 2026 — nearly twice the amount of its closest competitor.
Undercover agents went in and discovered…
[2/7]
Undercover agents went in and discovered…
[2/7]
A worker was making BOGUS food stamp purchases on behalf of welfare recipients and pocketing the money!
Recipients would go to the bodega with their SNAP cards and exchange their benefits for cash — often to buy prohibited products like alcohol and tobacco.
[3/7]
Recipients would go to the bodega with their SNAP cards and exchange their benefits for cash — often to buy prohibited products like alcohol and tobacco.
[3/7]
New in the New England Journal of Medicine: a randomized crossover study found that one or more cups of coffee daily cut sleep by an average of 36 minutes over 2 weeks compared to abstaining. (1/8)
A 2023 meta-analysis of 24 caffeine-sleep RCTs put a hard number on the timing rule: to protect sleep, finish your last cup at least 9 hours before bed. (2/8)
Get closer to bedtime and the damage compounds: total sleep drops by up to 45 minutes and sleep onset stretches ~9 minutes longer. (3/8)
Ultra-processed food doesn't just show up on the scale. It shows up in your blood. (1/8)
A new study published this week identified a distinct metabolic "signature" in the blood of people eating more ultra-processed food -- a pattern of metabolites and lipids associated with worse cardiometabolic risk. (2/8)
Separate American Journal of Public Health data (NHANES, n=47,999) showed that for every 10-point rise in the share of calories from ultra-processed food, participants had higher HbA1c, higher diastolic blood pressure, worse cholesterol ratios, and a 4% higher risk of (3/8)
If I wanted to give myself the best opportunity at improving my golf game...
Here are 20 things I would do
(In no particular order)
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Here are 20 things I would do
(In no particular order)
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1. Quality over quantity when practicing. Being more aware of what I'm doing vs just smashing 100s of balls with no thought
2. Increase my CHS (club head speed). Train yourself to swing the club fast so that your cruising speed is faster without trying
2. Increase my CHS (club head speed). Train yourself to swing the club fast so that your cruising speed is faster without trying
3. Work on whatever is causing me to 3 putt. It might be putting itself, the shot that you hit to 50ft instead of 30ft, etc. Just get rid of them if you can
4. No missing putts inside of 3ft. Tour average is like 99% from that range. No excuse to miss those. Speed, read, line
4. No missing putts inside of 3ft. Tour average is like 99% from that range. No excuse to miss those. Speed, read, line
Scotland's push to become a global centre for AI infrastructure is being built on planning foundations that predate it.
National Planning Framework 4 sets out no enforceable definition of a "green data centre."
No national energy strategy has been published since 2017, despite one being ready for Cabinet since May 2024.
Communities from Newarthill to Auchtertool report being told one story about jobs, renewables, and community benefit, while planning documents obtained under Freedom of Information show another.
This charter sets out what we are asking every candidate standing in the May 2027 council elections, and every sitting MSP and minister, to commit to before residents vote in what may even become a snap general election (Bookies say 28% chance)
It is not a call to reject data centre investment outright.
It is a call for decisions to be made on an honest, evidenced, and accountable basis which is not what is happening now.
Every demand below is accompanied by the evidence it is based on.
This is a working draft, open to refinement by campaign partners before wider circulation.
The Demands
Demand 1:
Publish an enforceable definition of a "green data centre."
NPF4 designates green data centres as a national development, but leaves planning authorities to interpret what "green" means case by case, with no binding criteria on renewable power sourcing, water consumption, or heat re-use.
We ask the Scottish Government to publish a fixed, enforceable definition before any further national development consent is granted.
Evidence:
Scottish Parliament written answer S6W-41362 confirms no fixed criteria exist; planning authorities are left to "consider criteria" on a discretionary, case-by-case basis.
Demand 2:
Call a temporary moratorium on new data centre planning consent until that definition exists.
Decisions are being made now, without the guidance that is meant to inform them.
We ask for a pause on granting further consent until the green data centre definition above is published and in force.
Evidence:
First Minister Swinney has stated he is "giving active consideration" to national planning guidance, without committing to a pause. APRS and the Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland have jointly called for exactly this moratorium. This is being considered in parliament.
But when?
Demand 3:
Publish the Energy Strategy and Just Transition Plan without further delay.
Scotland has had no published national energy strategy since 2017.
The current strategy was drafted in January 2023, promised for "Summer 2024," and confirmed ready for Cabinet in May 2024 then deferred for a UK General Election purdah that ended in July 2024.
It remains unpublished two years on.
Evidence:
JP Marks's letter to First Minister Swinney, 28 May 2024, names the Energy Strategy and Just Transition Plan among documents deferred for purdah.
Gillian Martin's written answer S6W-44231, 25 March 2026, confirms it remains unpublished, citing ongoing UK energy policy developments.
Demand 4:
Require cumulative impact assessment across all data centre applications in a region, not each in isolation.
No systematic framework requires planning authorities to assess the combined water, grid, and land impact of multiple data centre developments in the same area. Each is currently assessed alone.
Evidence:
Objectors to the Larbert hyperscale application have formally raised this gap, submitting that the applicant has failed to demonstrate how "cumulative national impacts of data centre expansion have been assessed" under NPF4.
National Planning Framework 4 sets out no enforceable definition of a "green data centre."
No national energy strategy has been published since 2017, despite one being ready for Cabinet since May 2024.
Communities from Newarthill to Auchtertool report being told one story about jobs, renewables, and community benefit, while planning documents obtained under Freedom of Information show another.
This charter sets out what we are asking every candidate standing in the May 2027 council elections, and every sitting MSP and minister, to commit to before residents vote in what may even become a snap general election (Bookies say 28% chance)
It is not a call to reject data centre investment outright.
It is a call for decisions to be made on an honest, evidenced, and accountable basis which is not what is happening now.
Every demand below is accompanied by the evidence it is based on.
This is a working draft, open to refinement by campaign partners before wider circulation.
The Demands
Demand 1:
Publish an enforceable definition of a "green data centre."
NPF4 designates green data centres as a national development, but leaves planning authorities to interpret what "green" means case by case, with no binding criteria on renewable power sourcing, water consumption, or heat re-use.
We ask the Scottish Government to publish a fixed, enforceable definition before any further national development consent is granted.
Evidence:
Scottish Parliament written answer S6W-41362 confirms no fixed criteria exist; planning authorities are left to "consider criteria" on a discretionary, case-by-case basis.
Demand 2:
Call a temporary moratorium on new data centre planning consent until that definition exists.
Decisions are being made now, without the guidance that is meant to inform them.
We ask for a pause on granting further consent until the green data centre definition above is published and in force.
Evidence:
First Minister Swinney has stated he is "giving active consideration" to national planning guidance, without committing to a pause. APRS and the Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland have jointly called for exactly this moratorium. This is being considered in parliament.
But when?
Demand 3:
Publish the Energy Strategy and Just Transition Plan without further delay.
Scotland has had no published national energy strategy since 2017.
The current strategy was drafted in January 2023, promised for "Summer 2024," and confirmed ready for Cabinet in May 2024 then deferred for a UK General Election purdah that ended in July 2024.
It remains unpublished two years on.
Evidence:
JP Marks's letter to First Minister Swinney, 28 May 2024, names the Energy Strategy and Just Transition Plan among documents deferred for purdah.
Gillian Martin's written answer S6W-44231, 25 March 2026, confirms it remains unpublished, citing ongoing UK energy policy developments.
Demand 4:
Require cumulative impact assessment across all data centre applications in a region, not each in isolation.
No systematic framework requires planning authorities to assess the combined water, grid, and land impact of multiple data centre developments in the same area. Each is currently assessed alone.
Evidence:
Objectors to the Larbert hyperscale application have formally raised this gap, submitting that the applicant has failed to demonstrate how "cumulative national impacts of data centre expansion have been assessed" under NPF4.
Demand 5:
Make community benefit funding legally binding and funded up front, not contingent on future developer revenue.
Community benefit promises are being announced before they are funded.
We ask that all Section 75 planning obligations tie community funds to construction milestones, secured at the point permission is granted, not to a developer's future revenue projections.
Evidence: DataVita's announced £543m community fund for the Lanarkshire AI growth zone does not currently exist and is contingent on future DataVita revenue (Guardian investigation, 6 July 2026).
Demand 6: End the use of Masterplan Consent Areas to pre-agree consent for data centres without full public application.
Masterplan Consent Areas, introduced under the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019, allow a planning authority to pre-agree consent terms for a whole area in advance.
Once an MCA scheme is adopted, development in line with it can proceed without a full individual planning application.
We ask that green data centres be explicitly excluded from MCA eligibility, so that every application receives full public scrutiny.
Evidence: Scottish Government's own development management guidance (gov.scot) names green data centres among the development types MCAs are being extended to support, alongside national developments and Green Freeports.
Demand 7:
End confidential pre-application engagement between developers and planning authorities on data centre proposals.
Residents in Newarthill were door-knocked with informal, unenforceable offers months before any public announcement, while formal pre-application advice given to developers is treated as confidential by default.
We ask that pre-application engagement on major energy and digital infrastructure proposals be published as a matter of course, not withheld unless a specific, published justification is given.
Evidence:
North Lanarkshire Council's own published pre-application advice guidance for major developments states the service "is confidential, and no information will appear on the public planning portal."
Demand 8:
Justify jobs and investment figures with site-specific evidence, not figures imported from other developments.
Headline jobs figures used to sell major developments to the public should be traceable to the actual site in question, not scaled estimates borrowed from unrelated projects.
Evidence:
APRS's FOI request found the government's 3,400-jobs figure for the Lanarkshire AI growth zone was extrapolated from industry estimates for a different site, Cambois in Northumberland, and then scaled up. APRS's own assessment is that the real figure could be up to a hundred times smaller.
Demand 9:
Introduce a Third Party Right of Appeal for communities on major developments.
A developer refused planning permission can appeal that decision.
A community whose objections are overruled cannot.
This structural asymmetry means the planning system is designed to favour the applicant by default.
We ask for an amendment to the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act, via Member's Bill or Government Bill, to restore basic symmetry between developers and the communities affected by their proposals.
Evidence:
Scotland currently has no Third Party Right of Appeal. This is a devolved matter requiring no Westminster involvement.
Demand 10: Require mandatory disclosure of beneficial ownership and intended end-user for all developments over 50MW.
Communities are being asked to approve major infrastructure whose true owners and operators are not disclosed at the point of application.
Planning law currently does not require this information, allowing ownership to sit behind shell companies, special purpose vehicles, and offshore investment structures.
We ask for disclosure to be made a mandatory condition of consent for developments above this threshold.
Make community benefit funding legally binding and funded up front, not contingent on future developer revenue.
Community benefit promises are being announced before they are funded.
We ask that all Section 75 planning obligations tie community funds to construction milestones, secured at the point permission is granted, not to a developer's future revenue projections.
Evidence: DataVita's announced £543m community fund for the Lanarkshire AI growth zone does not currently exist and is contingent on future DataVita revenue (Guardian investigation, 6 July 2026).
Demand 6: End the use of Masterplan Consent Areas to pre-agree consent for data centres without full public application.
Masterplan Consent Areas, introduced under the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019, allow a planning authority to pre-agree consent terms for a whole area in advance.
Once an MCA scheme is adopted, development in line with it can proceed without a full individual planning application.
We ask that green data centres be explicitly excluded from MCA eligibility, so that every application receives full public scrutiny.
Evidence: Scottish Government's own development management guidance (gov.scot) names green data centres among the development types MCAs are being extended to support, alongside national developments and Green Freeports.
Demand 7:
End confidential pre-application engagement between developers and planning authorities on data centre proposals.
Residents in Newarthill were door-knocked with informal, unenforceable offers months before any public announcement, while formal pre-application advice given to developers is treated as confidential by default.
We ask that pre-application engagement on major energy and digital infrastructure proposals be published as a matter of course, not withheld unless a specific, published justification is given.
Evidence:
North Lanarkshire Council's own published pre-application advice guidance for major developments states the service "is confidential, and no information will appear on the public planning portal."
Demand 8:
Justify jobs and investment figures with site-specific evidence, not figures imported from other developments.
Headline jobs figures used to sell major developments to the public should be traceable to the actual site in question, not scaled estimates borrowed from unrelated projects.
Evidence:
APRS's FOI request found the government's 3,400-jobs figure for the Lanarkshire AI growth zone was extrapolated from industry estimates for a different site, Cambois in Northumberland, and then scaled up. APRS's own assessment is that the real figure could be up to a hundred times smaller.
Demand 9:
Introduce a Third Party Right of Appeal for communities on major developments.
A developer refused planning permission can appeal that decision.
A community whose objections are overruled cannot.
This structural asymmetry means the planning system is designed to favour the applicant by default.
We ask for an amendment to the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act, via Member's Bill or Government Bill, to restore basic symmetry between developers and the communities affected by their proposals.
Evidence:
Scotland currently has no Third Party Right of Appeal. This is a devolved matter requiring no Westminster involvement.
Demand 10: Require mandatory disclosure of beneficial ownership and intended end-user for all developments over 50MW.
Communities are being asked to approve major infrastructure whose true owners and operators are not disclosed at the point of application.
Planning law currently does not require this information, allowing ownership to sit behind shell companies, special purpose vehicles, and offshore investment structures.
We ask for disclosure to be made a mandatory condition of consent for developments above this threshold.
Demand 11:
Require mandatory Environmental Impact Assessment (Schedule 1 status) for all computing facilities over 10MW.
Data centres above this scale currently have no guaranteed requirement for full Environmental Impact Assessment, despite their water, energy, and grid demands.
We ask for Schedule 1 status to be applied as standard, closing this gap.
Evidence:
Achievable via statutory instrument amending the 2017 EIA Regulations.
No primary legislation required; fully within existing devolved competence.
Require mandatory Environmental Impact Assessment (Schedule 1 status) for all computing facilities over 10MW.
Data centres above this scale currently have no guaranteed requirement for full Environmental Impact Assessment, despite their water, energy, and grid demands.
We ask for Schedule 1 status to be applied as standard, closing this gap.
Evidence:
Achievable via statutory instrument amending the 2017 EIA Regulations.
No primary legislation required; fully within existing devolved competence.
