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US tech firms successfully lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret

emissions secret Microsoft and other US tech companies successfully lobbied the EU to hide the environmental toll of their datacentres, an investigation has found, with demands to block a database of green metrics from public

Amazon enters agreements for nine Australian renewable projects to power datacentres

emissions by 2040. These include power from [Victoria’s Golden Plains 2](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jan/13/new-victorian-wind-farm-could-provide-10-of-states-energy), the largest windfarm in Australia, which began operating in 2024. It also includes [the solar and battery storage farm