Dafür müssen "Köpfe rollen", das ist einfach nur noch krank. Und wir wundern uns, warum die Demokratie ins Stolpern kommt...

Kopieren, Einfügen, Regieren: Wie #Microsoft ...und andere #unplugbigtech Kack-Unternehmen, der EU-Kommission Gesetze diktierte, um den Energieverbrauch von Rechenzentren geheim zu halten

https://algorithmwatch.org/de/kopieren-einfugen-regieren-microsoft-schreibt-eu-richtlinie/

#DigitalEurope #Amazon #Apple #Meta

"Microsoft and DigitalEurope, a lobby group whose members include Amazon, Google and Meta, secured a secrecy provision in EU law to block public access to critical information on data centres’ environmental impact, Investigate Europe can reveal.

With the EU set to triple its data centre capacity in the next five years, the European Commission started collecting key metrics like energy efficiency and water consumption from facilities. However, information on individual facilities’ footprint is kept secret, after industry pushed to amend the 2024 legislation to classify it as confidential and commercially sensitive.

The confidentiality clause could violate EU transparency rules, 10 leading legal scholars told Investigate Europe. In particular, it could infringe the bloc’s obligations under the Aarhus Convention, an international treaty on access to environmental information, they warned.

"In two decades, I cannot recall a comparable case," said Professor Jerzy Jendrośka, who spent 19 years on the body overseeing the Aarhus Convention and teaches environmental law at Opole University in Poland. "This clearly seems not to be in line with the convention."

EU member states were also encouraged to refuse public requests for the information, Investigate Europe can reveal."

https://www.investigate-europe.eu/posts/big-tech-data-centres-secrecy-eu-law-environment-footprint

#EU #Microsoft #DataCenters #BigTech #Environment #Amazon #Google #Meta #DigitalEurope

Investigators have discovered that the European Commission bowed to the demands of Big Tech lobbyists that the environmental impact of individual datacentres be kept out of the public eye.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/legislation-regulation/eu-bowed-to-big-tech-lobbying-to-keep-datacentre-impact-secret?utm_source=mastodon_org&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=Apr_Datacentre

#DigitalEurope #microsoft #bigtech #lobby #eu #datacenter #emissions #technews #InvestigateEurope

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