“Strasbourg Calling" Why is data on data centres' environmental impact missing?
An investigative report has revealed how major technology companies have helped write secrecy into European Union legislation to conceal the environmental impact of data centres. German investigative journalist Nico Schmidt of Investigate Europe spent months examining the “black box” behind Europe’s technology boom and the so-called cloud services industry. The report was among the ten finalists for the 2026 Daphne Caruana Prize for Journalism awarded by the European Parliament. “We started out wanting to find out what the environmental footprint of data centres was, because the European…
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