A new report by Investigate Europe details how US tech giants (incl.
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A new report by Investigate Europe details how US tech giants (incl. Google, Amazon and Meta) aggressively and successfully lobbied EU regulators and politicians to keep the environmental harm caused by their euro-zone datacenters secret from the public.
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How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres’ environmental toll
Environmental footprint of Europe's data centres kept secret after industry lobbying in a move legal experts warn could violate transparency rules.
Investigate Europe (www.investigate-europe.eu)
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A new report by Investigate Europe details how US tech giants (incl. Google, Amazon and Meta) aggressively and successfully lobbied EU regulators and politicians to keep the environmental harm caused by their euro-zone datacenters secret from the public.
How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres’ environmental toll
Environmental footprint of Europe's data centres kept secret after industry lobbying in a move legal experts warn could violate transparency rules.
Investigate Europe (www.investigate-europe.eu)
@JulianOliver it's also in the German newspapers:
https://www.zeit.de/digital/2026-04/rechenzentren-umwelt-eu-kommission-energieeffizienzrichtlinie-microsoft (€) -
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A new report by Investigate Europe details how US tech giants (incl. Google, Amazon and Meta) aggressively and successfully lobbied EU regulators and politicians to keep the environmental harm caused by their euro-zone datacenters secret from the public.
How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres’ environmental toll
Environmental footprint of Europe's data centres kept secret after industry lobbying in a move legal experts warn could violate transparency rules.
Investigate Europe (www.investigate-europe.eu)
To borrow Heritage Foundation's disingenuous phrasing re: FISA,
"If tech companies have nothing to hide, why the secrecy?"
https://algorithmwatch.org/en/copy-paste-govern-microsoft-ghostwrote-eu-policy/
States push to end secrecy over data center water use
The effort is drawing bipartisan support and is expected to come up again next year as officials grapple with the artificial intelligence boom’s side
E&E News by POLITICO (www.eenews.net)
Is your data center getting a big discount on electricity? That’s redacted. » Yale Climate Connections
A look at secret agreements in Montana.
Yale Climate Connections (yaleclimateconnections.org)
The actual economic impact of data centers on a place? That's a secret.
Some North Carolina officials are rethinking tax breaks for an opaque industry.
Mother Jones (www.motherjones.com)
At least 4 Wisconsin communities signed secrecy deals for billion-dollar data centers
Massive data center proposals are often developed in secret. Wisconsin has now joined several states with legislative proposals to make the process more transparent.
WPR (www.wpr.org)
Republican corruption relies on secrecy
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/gop-senate-control-trump-agenda-9575f0e6
Fifteen Years Later, Citizens United Defined the 2024 Election
The influence of wealthy donors and dark money was unprecedented. Much of it would have been illegal before the Supreme Court swept away long-established campaign finance rules.
Brennan Center for Justice (www.brennancenter.org)
Corrupt court hide the corrupt
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A new report by Investigate Europe details how US tech giants (incl. Google, Amazon and Meta) aggressively and successfully lobbied EU regulators and politicians to keep the environmental harm caused by their euro-zone datacenters secret from the public.
How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres’ environmental toll
Environmental footprint of Europe's data centres kept secret after industry lobbying in a move legal experts warn could violate transparency rules.
Investigate Europe (www.investigate-europe.eu)
@JulianOliver we need to start blaming the eu-commission too....they are the ones making the decision and they could just have said no! And this is not the first time they put tech first.
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