Protesters break into Microsoft data centre site in Amsterdam
- Data centres face protests across Europe due to the massive amounts of computing power and water they use.
- Protesters in the Netherlands have broken into a construction site for a new Microsoft data centre in Amsterdam, the latest action in a growing movement sweeping Europe.
- Several hundred activists occupied the site in the Sloterdijk district on Friday, responding to a call for a two-day protest across Europe against data centres, which handle the large processing workloads associated with artificial intelligence (AI).
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- Data centres face protests across Europe due to the massive amounts of computing power and water they use.
- Protesters in the Netherlands have broken into a construction site for a new Microsoft data centre in Amsterdam, the latest action in a growing movement sweeping Europe.
- Several hundred activists occupied the site in the Sloterdijk district on Friday, responding to a call for a two-day protest across Europe against data centres, which handle the large processing workloads associated with artificial intelligence (AI).
Sources: Europeaninterest, Al Jazeera