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Microsoft and other US tech companies successfully lobbied the EU to hide the environmental toll of their datacentres, an investigation has found, with demands to block a database of green metrics from public view written almost word for word into EU rules.

The secrecy provision, which the European Commission added to its proposal almost verbatim after industry lobbying in 2024, hinders scrutiny of the pollution that individual datacentres emit. It leaves researchers with just national-level summaries of their energy footprints.

The rise of AI chatbots has spurred a boom in the construction of chip-filled warehouses with a hunger for power that is being met, in part, by burning fossil gas. Legal scholars warn the blanket confidentiality clause may fall foul of EU transparency rules and the Aarhus convention on public access to environmental information.

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

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[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The corruption needs to stop. Eat the rich.

[–] Tryenjer@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Perhaps we shouldn't send politicians burned by domestic corruption scandals to Brussels. 🤔

No one should fail upwards.

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Okay so we’ve all been saying this since when?

When?

When does it start?

Now?

How about now?

Now??

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I mean, gotta start somewhere. I too would like to see more direct action in play but we’re trying to motivate nations here, tens or hundreds of millions of people.

Take no kings, I get that it’s been toothless, but it built a large following and the next one is calling for action. It probably won’t work, probably won’t be enough, but it will build momentum, and the next gets more, the next more still. This is obviously US focused (I’m American but this shit has gone global).

It took them a very long time to infiltrate the governments, this has been going on for decades. We won’t be able to solve it in a weekend. It’s going to take time and hard work to fix this shit.

[–] YoureHotCupCake@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I mean some people have started see Luigi, warehouse guy, guy who threw moltov at Sam Altmans house, guy shooting at politicians home for voting in favor of an AI datacenter in their town, and I am sure there are more that I am unaware of too.