EU accused of hiding environmental impact of data centers

17 days ago by solo to c/environment

A formal complaint says the European Commission is keeping data center energy and water use under wraps, breaching the public’s right to know.

The complaint lodged this week by Lighthouse Reports, and first reported by POLITICO, accuses the EU executive of setting up rules keeping the public from seeing how much energy and water are used by individual data centers.

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