{"id":1037448,"date":"2026-09-22T07:59:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T02:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1037448"},"modified":"2026-09-22T08:11:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T02:41:17","slug":"google-data-centre-sparks-protests-in-austria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/22\/google-data-centre-sparks-protests-in-austria\/","title":{"rendered":"Google data centre sparks protests in Austria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Linz: In the Austrian town of Kronstorf, a planned Google data centre promises investment, jobs and a place on the digital map &#8212; but residents are not convinced. <\/p>\n<p>They have staged protests against the 50-hectare (123 acre) complex, in a case that has become symbolic of global debate about the environmental and societal costsof the AI boom. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe we need a rethink when it comes to this endless growth and expansion,&#8221; protest organiser Christina Gruber told AFP as around 400 people gathered outside the headquarters of the regional government in Linz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linz: In the Austrian town of Kronstorf, a planned Google data centre promises investment, jobs and a place on the digital map &#8212; but residents are not convinced. They have staged protests against the 50-hectare (123 acre) complex, in a case that has become symbolic of global debate about the environmental and societal costsof the AI boom. &#8220;I believe we need a rethink when it comes to this endless growth and expansion,&#8221; protest organiser Christina Gruber told AFP as around 400 people gathered outside the headquarters of the regional government in Linz.<\/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-1037448","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\/1037448","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=1037448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037462,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037448\/revisions\/1037462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}