Approximately 100 demonstrators, organized partly by Geef Tegengas, infiltrated the Pure Data Centres site to hang anti-AI banners and chant slogans supporting Palestine. The demonstration aligns with a broader pattern of pushback, including a recent mock military checkpoint staged outside a company facility in Dublin. Microsoft is simultaneously confronting internal workplace dissent over its military contracts, which recently resulted in the termination of two employees following an office occupation.
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Protesters have broken into a construction site of a new Microsoft data center site 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.
Protesters break into Microsoft data center site in Amsterdam
Europe is witnessing a wave of protests against data centers.
Europe is witnessing a wave of protests against data centers.
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 centers until 2030, after a temporary stop that was announced at the end of 2023. Microsoft will be the sole tenant of this new data center, and the project is proceeding as it was planned as far back as 2016, before a ban was put…
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