EU sides with Big Tech over right to know about the impact of AI build-out
ChatGPT was less than a year old, Claude scarcely six months. European lawmakers were putting the final touches to the latest version of the Energy Efficiency Directive, a gnarly and unheralded law designed to help EU countries lower their greenhouse emissions by 2030. It’s unlikely that the framers expected that sections requiring all data centre operators in the EU to report on their power consumption metrics and water usage would be especially controversial.
- ▪ChatGPT was less than a year old, Claude scarcely six months.
- ▪European lawmakers were putting the final touches to the latest version of the Energy Efficiency Directive, a gnarly and unheralded law designed to help EU countries lower their greenhouse emissions by 2030.
- ▪It’s unlikely that the framers expected that sections requiring all data centre operators in the EU to report on their power consumption metrics and water usage would be especially controversial.
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| Publication time | Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:34:09 +0000 |
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Data Centre Silence NEWSROOM: TECH AND ACCOUNTABILITY Co-published with Deborah Lupton / https://betterimagesofai.org / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CREDITS Lydia Emmanouilidou, Pablo Jiménez Arandia, Ludek Stavinoha, Riccardo Coluccini, Beatriz Ramalho da Silva, Tomas Statius, Margot Gibbs, Jaya Mirani, Jade Lindgaard, Martijn Roessingh, Andrea Capocci, Nienke Schipper, Manuel Ángel Méndez, Laura Martín, Miguel Ángel Gavilanes, Daniel Howden, Tessa Pang, Crofton Black, Jack Sapoch METHODOLOGY Why we made a legal filing to the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee September 30, 2026 How EU leaders sided with Big Tech over the public’s right to know about the true scale and environmental impact of the AI build-out, forcing a legal challenge to seek disclosure Back in…
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