22 July 2026, DCpedia, Marco Verzijl

Article: From intelligence ambition to demonstrable value: the data center debate needs a yardstick (machine translated from Dutch)

The Dutch data center debate has been caught between two extremes
for years. On the one hand, data centers symbolize high electricity
consumption, grid congestion, space consumption and water
consumption. On the other hand, they are presented as indispensable
infrastructure for our digital economy.