AI Data centres face growing backlash

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AI data centres are facing growing political and public opposition, with lawmakers calling for tighter regulation. In Amsterdam, activists occupied a planned Microsoft data-centre site during a wider European protest.

Democrats are also calling for tighter regulation of AI data centres, a concern shared across Europe. In Amsterdam, several hundred activists occupied the site of a planned Microsoft data centre as part of a two-day protest taking place across the continent. Jennie Shin reports.