Protesters break into Microsoft data center site in Amsterdam

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Around 100 activists from Geef Tegengas entered a construction site in Amsterdam for a planned Microsoft data center, with some climbing a crane and displaying protest banners. The group opposes the project, citing concerns about AI and political issues, while the site is part of a plan for three 85-meter towers.

Members of the action group Geef Tegengas put a banner on a crane during a protest. | Image: Getty Images Protesters have broken into a construction site of a new Microsoft data center in Amsterdam this morning. Members of the Geef Tegengas group helped organize the protest against the construction of three 85-meter data center towers in the outskirts of Amsterdam. Reuters reports that around 100 people made it into the construction site, with some scaling a crane to place a "fuck AI" banner. Protesters also unfurled a "Microsoft powers genocide" banner on the construction site, and chanted "Microsoft has got to go" and "free Palestine." Opposition to the new data center in Amsterdam comes more than a year after the city banned new data center … Read the full story at The Verge.