ENEnvironmental footprint of Europe's data centres kept secret after industry lobbying in a move legal experts warn could violate transparency rulesMicrosoft and DigitalEurope, a lobby group whose members include Amazon, Google and Meta, secured a secrecy provision in EU law to block public access to critical information on data centres’ environmental impact, Investigate Europe can reveal. With the EU set to triple its data centre capacity in the next five years, the European Commission started ...