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Around 100 protesters entered a Microsoft data-centre construction site in Amsterdam, with some climbing a crane and displaying banners opposing AI data centres, Kotaku reports, citing Reuters via The Verge.
Why it mattersOther banners raised the Israel-Palestine conflict, so the protest was not solely about AI infrastructure. Kotaku says Amsterdam has paused consideration of new data-centre proposals until 2030. The incident puts local opposition to data-centre construction on the ground, rather than in a planning document.
Discuss: What should carry more weight when a city decides whether to build: the promised computing capacity, or residents’ objections to the infrastructure?
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