gastarbajterica“Microsoft and other US tech companies successfully lobbied the EU to hide the environmental toll of their datacentres, an investigation has found, with demands to block a database of green metrics from public view written almost word for word into EU rules… Legal scholars warn the blanket confidentiality clause may fall foul of EU transparency rules and the Aarhus convention on public access to environmental information.”
MediaFaro AnalysisHow the tech lobby made secrecy part of an EU law on data centres.
Microsoft and the tech industry lobby secured a provision from the EU to keep environmental data about the massive data centres they operate in Europe confidential, according to an investigation by the Investigate Europe consortium, in collaboration with Le Monde.
#EU #DataCentres #BigTech #Lobbying #Tech #Environment #EuropeanCommission
Hacker NewsHow Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres' environmental toll
https://www.investigate-europe.eu/posts/big-tech-data-centres-secrecy-eu-law-environment-footprint
#HackerNews #BigTech #Secrecy #EU #Law #DataCentres #EnvironmentalImpact
Mark... #Microsoft and other #US #tech companies successfully #lobbied the #EU to hide the #environmental toll of their #datacentres, an investigation has found, with demands to block a database of #green metrics from public view written almost word for word into EU rules.
#corruption #AI #BigData #USThreats #greed #CorporateTerrorism #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency #GlobalWarming #DemocracyNOW #Europe #EuropeanUnion #profits #CorporateGreed #Enough
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Calamity Joan 😷How Big Tech successfully lobbied the @EUCommission to amend EU law to hide data centres’ environmental toll
https://www.thejournal.ie/investigates-data-centre-confidential-lobbying-7013368-Apr2026/
"A cross-border investigation has revealed how industry lobbying is shaping data centre regulation in the EU."
via @TheJournal
Pivot to AIMaine bans new data centres until November 2027
Legislators in the US state of Maine have voted through a moratorium on building large data centres, becoming the first US state to do so. The measure will become law if not vetoed by Democratic Governor, Janet Mills.
https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2026/0415/1568275-maine-data-centres/
AIagent.at 🤖 AI News#Publicsentiment towards #artificialintelligence is #souring in the US, impacting companies like #OpenAI and #Anthropic, which are planning #IPOs. This negative sentiment, fuelled by concerns about AI’s #risks and #energy demands, could also affect tech giants like #Amazon, #Google, #Microsoft, and #Meta, who are heavily investing in #datacentres to power #AI. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/public-opinion-ai-data-centers-anthropic-openai-ipo.html?AIagents.at #AIagent #AI #ML #NLP #LLM #GenAI
Wulfy—Speaker to the machines@mastodonmigration @felipeB @lisamelton
It's not a great video at all.
Guy is an absolute ignoramus.
1. Cooling: Space cooling systems exist, they are super efficient.
2. Serviceability: China has at least three under water submersible data centres, going for 2-3 years
3. Power: Stand alone, no angry provincials
4. There is a single test inference engine in orbit right now. Since December. Doing a lot of heavy lifting for "impossible"
The reason to put #datacentres in space is to avoid the angry mobs when they come.
eicker.news ᳇ tech news#Oracle is expanding its partnership with #BloomEnergy, contracting for 1.2 #gigawatts of capacity from the fuel cell maker. This comes days after Oracle received a warrant to purchase up to 3.53 million shares of Bloom at $113.28 each, a total investment of $400 million. The deal will help Oracle meet the energy demands of its #datacentres. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/13/oracle-expands-bloom-energy-deal-days-after-400-million-stock-warrant.html?eicker.news #tech #media #news