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US tech firms successfully lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret
- US tech firms lobbied the EU to keep datacentre emissions data confidential, influencing the final rule.
- The secrecy clause mirrors industry demands, adopted almost verbatim in the regulation.
- The rules limit access to data even under freedom of information requests.
- Industry groups DigitalEurope and Video Games Europe were among the lobbyists named.
- Experts warn the confidentiality may violate EU transparency rules and the Aarhus convention.
- The EU still requires some reporting, proposing aggregated environmental metrics for comparability.
- Researchers relied on national-level summaries due to the secrecy clause.
- EU aims to triple datacentre capacity in five to seven years as AI growth expands.
- Investigate Europe led the research in collaboration with The Guardian and others.
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