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Google and Microsoft AI Data Centre Workers Report Electrocution, Tuberculosis, Squalid Housing, and Unpaid Overtime

Summary by IBTimes UK
Investigation finds migrant workers building Google and Microsoft AI data centres in Europe faced injuries, TB concerns, overcrowding, and unpaid overtime.

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Exposed to conditions that put their lives in jeopardy, the humiliations and the unpaid wages. They are the conditions in which several Romanian workers work on the sites of the data centers, shows an investigation carried out by Investigates Europe, taken and adapted by Snoop for the public in Romania. Romanian worker electrocuted Sandu*, a 34-year-old electrician, is ...

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A five-month investigation by Investigate Europe with partners in 9 countries, including 'Le Monde,' reveals the multiplication of dangerous practices on data center construction sites in several European countries.

·Paris, France
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In the United States it is already a topic at the heart of the protests, in Europe the construction of data centers for artificial intelligence hides numerous violations of workers' rights, exposed to dangerous conditions.

Journalists studied working conditions in facilities in Sweden, Norway, Belgium and the Netherlands for five months and collected evidence of severe injuries, violations of labour rights, non-payment of wages and cases of workers living in overcrowded premises.

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Le Monde broke the news in Paris, France on Friday, October 30, 2026.
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