#US #tech companies, including #Microsoft, successfully lobbied the #EU to keep #datacentreemissions data confidential. This secrecy provision, adopted almost verbatim from industry demands, hinders scrutiny of individual datacentre pollution and may violate EU #transparency rules and the #Aarhusconvention. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/17/microsoft-us-tech-firms-lobbied-eu-secrecy-rules-datacentre-emissions?eicker.news #tech #media #news