“Microsoft and other US tech companies successfully lobbied the EU to hide the environmental toll of their datacentres”

When I say in public talks that big tech keeps data centre usage secret, I worry about being perceived as a complot theorist, but yeah they actually do this.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/17/microsoft-us-tech-firms-lobbied-eu-secrecy-rules-datacentre-emissions