Across the European Union, protests against data centres have become a common sight. In Ireland, grid operators have frozen new connections. In the Netherlands, municipalities have restricted where facilities can be constructed. In Germany, lawcreaters now mandate waste-heat reutilize and renewable power for large facilities. The European Union, once content to let cloud infrastructure grow silently in the background, is imposing restrictive guidelines under its expanding AI governance framework—explicitely linking artificial ininformigence to energy security, climate tarreceives, and public scrutiny through policy programmes such as the AI Continent Action Plan and the “Apply AI” strategy.
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