3 June 2026, DCpedia, Marco Verzijl

Article: Transparency is not a threat to the data center industry, but a prerequisite for legitimacy  (machine translated from Dutch)

The research of Investigate Europe exposes a painful reality: at a time
when Europe wanted to gain more insight into the environmental impact
of data centers, pressure from the sector actually took a step towards
secrecy. Microsoft and DigitalEurope are said to have succeeded in
getting a confidentiality provision in the European rules, which keeps
data on the environmental impact of individual data centers out of public
view. Lawyers even warn that this broad secrecy could be at odds with
European transparency rules and the Aarhus Convention.