Protesters enter Microsoft data center site under construction in Amsterdam
Original title: Protesters break into Microsoft data center site in Amsterdam
About 100 people with Geef Tegengas entered the Pure Data Centres site and hung anti-AI and anti-Microsoft banners.
Members of Geef Tegengas helped organize a protest at a Microsoft data center construction site on the outskirts of Amsterdam. Reuters reported that around 100 people entered the site, with some climbing a crane to hang a banner. Microsoft is to be the sole tenant of three 85-meter towers planned as far back as 2016 and built by British developer Pure Data Centres, a project that proceeded despite Amsterdam’s later ban on new data centers until 2030.
- The city banned new data centers until 2030 after a temporary stop announced at the end of 2023.
- Protesters also displayed a “Microsoft powers genocide” banner and chanted against Microsoft.
- Microsoft dropped the UK’s largest data center project last month over power supply delays into the 2030s.
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Members of the action group Geef Tegengas put a banner on a crane during a protest. | Image: Getty Images Protesters have broken into a construction site of a new Microsoft data center in Amsterdam this morning. Members of the Geef Tegengas group helped organize the protest against the construction of three 85-meter data center towers in the outskirts of Amsterdam.
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