Here are the business stories making the headlines across Scotland and the UK this morning.

Butter brand relocates production to Aberdeen as part of growth plans

An award-winning Angus food and drink business has moved production of its artisan butter to Aberdeen as part of bold growth plans.

Bothy Butter has increased its capacity five-fold since relocating to the £27 million ONE SeedPod centre at Craibstone.

The bright pink building, which opened last year, boasts 11 food-safe manufacturing kitchens, product development and demonstration kitchens, and process testing spaces.

Read The Press and Journal exclusive here.

Marischal College repairs finally set to begin after 18-month delay — and what that means for Queen Street plans

Repairs to the gull-damaged end of Marischal College might finally begin within weeks — nearly 18 months after they brought the multi-million-pound transformation of Queen Street to a halt.

Aberdeen University admits the “complex nature” of Mitchell Tower and Marischal College East has contributed to delays in the east end of Aberdeen city centre.

When repairs were announced in February 2025, they were expected to take only “up to” a year.

Read the P&J article here.

Trump Media reports $238m loss as crypto falls

President Donald Trump's social media company reported a loss of $238m (£176m) between April and June as it branched into ventures unrelated to media, including cryptocurrencies.

The quarterly loss is more than 10 times the amount reported during the same period a year earlier, according to the Trump Media and Technology Group, which owns the President's Truth Social platform.

The firm says it will refocus on its social media mission, which includes a controversial service that offers faster access to market-moving posts from the platform's most influential users.

Read more on the BBC website.

Nvidia gets $500bn from major investors to develop AI infrastructure

Nvidia has teamed up with some of Wall Street's largest banks and investors to raise $500bn (£370bn) in capital for artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure.

The chipmaker said it had struck deals with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR, and that the investors were for the first time treating AI hardware and infrastructure, often referred to as "compute", as an asset class.

"In AI, compute is revenue," Jensen Huang, chief executive of Nvidia, said. "We are bringing the world's leading long-term capital providers together to independently underwrite AI infrastructure."

Read the full BBC article.

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