Protesters break into Microsoft data center site in Amsterdam
novaRom · hn · 2026-11-06
Protesters broke into Microsoft's data center construction site in Amsterdam, The Verge reports. As AI compute expansion drives growing local backlash over land, energy, and water use, European data center projects have increasingly become protest targets.
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