A new report by Investigate Europe details how US tech giants (incl.

[julianoliver@mastodon.social]

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.

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

#bigtech #environment #climate #digitalimperialism

[themadhatter@mastodon.social]

@JulianOliver it's also in the German newspapers:
https://www.zeit.de/digital/2026-04/rechenzentren-umwelt-eu-kommission-energieeffizienzrichtlinie-microsoft (€)

[npars01@mstdn.social]

@JulianOliver

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/

https://www.eenews.net/articles/states-push-to-end-secrecy-over-data-center-water-use/

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/03/is-your-data-center-getting-a-big-discount-on-electricity-thats-redacted/

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/data-centers-confidentiality-requirements-local-state-government-tax-incentives-economic-health-impacts-secret/

https://www.wpr.org/news/4-wisconsin-communities-signed-secrecy-deals-billion-dollar-data-centers

https://www.sctimes.com/story/news/2026/04/11/minnesota-bill-bans-local-officials-from-signing-ndas-on-data-centers/89527615007/

https://wisconsinexaminer.com/briefs/environmental-law-firm-sues-psc-to-force-release-of-meta-data-center-electricity-demand/

https://people.com/widows-plans-for-final-years-upended-proposed-data-center-leads-to-28-evictions-one-neighborhood-exclusive-11948396

Republican corruption relies on secrecy
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/gop-senate-control-trump-agenda-9575f0e6

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/fifteen-years-later-citizens-united-defined-2024-election

Corrupt court hide the corrupt

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/01/supreme-court-california-disclosure-law-donors-497554

[kjaerulv@mastodon.social]

@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.