Complaint accuses EU of hiding data centres’ energy and water use
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An NGO filed a complaint claiming that the European Commission would conceal data on energy and water consumption from data centres, thereby undermining citizens' right to know.
Complaint accuses EU of hiding data centres’ energy and water use
Lighthouse Reports, a Dutch non-profit newsroom, lodged a complaint this week, saying the European Commission keeps the public from seeing how much power and water each data center uses. They classified it under the Aarhus Convention, a binding treaty that grants people the right to access environmental information and to participate in environmental decision-making; the […] This story continues at The Next Web
Lighthouse Reports filed a complaint under the Aarhus Convention and accuses the European Commission of restricting access to data on the consumption of electricity and data centre water. The dispute occurs as the EU seeks to expand that infrastructure to respond to the rise of artificial intelligence.
The European Commission is facing a formal complaint over the way it allows the public to see the energy and water consumption of European data centers. Non-profit research organization Lighthouse Reports claims that European institutions have set rules that prevent citizens from seeing how much individual data centers are spending, even though their spending is skyrocketing together...
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