Article: AI: The Case for a Temporary Moratorium on Large Data Centers in Europe

[Kim Locke]

I would suggest that it should be changed to be Earth, honestly.
How many things we do REALLY need AI? I bet the number is a lot less than the people who need potable water, safe, affordable housing, and food security in the EU (or on Earth!)

"To triple data center capacity, the EU will force member states to build “acceleration zones” yet allow data centers to continue operating in secrecy, in a move overriding basic democratic principles. Existing data centers fail to comply with minimal transparency requirements, and instead of tightening enforcement, the EU has succumbed to US tech lobbyists who successfully pushed to classify all individual information about data centers as confidential. Decision-makers, journalists and citizens cannot access numbers about individual data centers through freedom of information requests."

" Data center operators prey on poor and marginalized communities to force the fast deployment of data centers before any meaningful contestation can be made."

https://www.techpolicy.press/the-case-for-a-temporary-moratorium-on-large-data-centers-in-europe/