{"id":1048138,"date":"2026-11-09T11:16:46","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T05:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1048138"},"modified":"2026-11-09T11:16:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T05:46:46","slug":"microsofts-1-billion-amsterdam-data-centre-project-faces-protests-over-ai-infrastructure-costs-details-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/09\/microsofts-1-billion-amsterdam-data-centre-project-faces-protests-over-ai-infrastructure-costs-details-inside\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s $1 billion Amsterdam data centre project faces protests over AI infrastructure costs- details inside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 100 activists occupied a Microsoft AI data centre construction site in Amsterdam on November 6, protesting against the rapid expansion of data centre infrastructure across Europe. The demonstration was part of a two-day campaign organised by the Stop Dirty Data Centres coalition, with protests planned in 16 countries.<\/p>\n<p>The coordinated campaign also featured a march in Dublin, demonstrations outside Poland&#8217;s parliament in Warsaw and protests against another Microsoft data centre project in Denmark. Demonstrations were also organised in Germany and other European countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 100 activists occupied a Microsoft AI data centre construction site in Amsterdam on November 6, protesting against the rapid expansion of data centre infrastructure across Europe. The demonstration was part of a two-day campaign organised by the Stop Dirty Data Centres coalition, with protests planned in 16 countries. The coordinated campaign also featured a march in Dublin, demonstrations outside Poland&#8217;s parliament in Warsaw and protests against another Microsoft data centre project in Denmark. Demonstrations were also organised in Germany and other European countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048138","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048139,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048138\/revisions\/1048139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}