{"id":1003575,"date":"2026-04-18T10:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003575"},"modified":"2026-04-18T11:35:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:05:39","slug":"eu-denies-bowing-to-tech-lobby-on-data-centre-green-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/18\/eu-denies-bowing-to-tech-lobby-on-data-centre-green-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"EU denies bowing to tech lobby on data centre green impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels: The European Commission denied Friday it had copy-pasted from proposals by tech industry lobbyists in adopting rules allowing data centres to keep their environmental impact secret. <\/p>\n<p>A press investigation alleged Brussels had added a confidentiality clause to a review of energy efficiency rules after pressure from Microsoft and DigitalEurope, a lobby whose members include Amazon, Google and Meta. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We reject the accusation of ad verbatim copy-pasting of industry lobbying,&#8221; said commission spokeswoman Anna-Kaisa Itkonen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels: The European Commission denied Friday it had copy-pasted from proposals by tech industry lobbyists in adopting rules allowing data centres to keep their environmental impact secret. A press investigation alleged Brussels had added a confidentiality clause to a review of energy efficiency rules after pressure from Microsoft and DigitalEurope, a lobby whose members include Amazon, Google and Meta. &#8220;We reject the accusation of ad verbatim copy-pasting of industry lobbying,&#8221; said commission spokeswoman Anna-Kaisa Itkonen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}