Europe is Fucked
Europe is Fucked
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US tech firms successfully lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret
Legally questionable confidentiality clause adopted almost word for word from demands of Microsoft and trade groups
The EU is obliged under the Aarhus convention to ensure that environmental information is systematically made available by the authorities to the public.
Luc Lavrysen, the former president of the Belgian constitutional court and emeritus professor of environmental law at Ghent University, said the confidentiality clause “is clearly in violation” of EU transparency rules and the Aarhus convention.