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). Demonstrators clashed with police as some climbed a crane and set off flares.
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Nathan Timmer, of the protest group Geef Tegengas – which translates as Push Back – told local broadcaster AT5…
