Nico Schmidt, Ella Joyner - How Big Tech Wrote Secrecy Into EU Law to Hide Data Centres’ Environmental Toll

Big Tech firms ‘influenced’ European Commission data center rules to keep environmental data secret: report

Evidence shows that Big Tech and a major industry lobby had drafted policy language to hide data center environmental impact data. According to a cross-border investigation published last week by Investigate Europe and media partners across nine countries, a Big Tech technology firm and a major industry lobby had “helped shape” an EU rule that keeps individual data center environmental data out of public view. The result is that details such as …

Nico Schmidt, Ella Joyner - How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres’ environmental toll

‘Microsoft and DigitalEurope, a lobby group whose members include Amazon, Google and Meta, secured a secrecy provision in EU law to block public access to critical information on data centres’ environmental impact, Investigate Europe can reveal.’ Read the article HERE. The post Nico Schmidt, Ella Joyner – How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres’ environmental toll appeared first on Brave New Europe.