Protesters breached a Microsoft data center site in Amsterdam to oppose AI infrastructure, highlighting growing public resistance to the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence facilities.
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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.
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