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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Isabella Kaminski

Datacentres are growing target of global climate-related legal cases, report finds

Low building with large footprint with vapour rising from front and. mountains behind
A Google datacentre in Santiago, Chile, where a project was successfully halted in 2020 on climate grounds. Photograph: Luis Bustamante/The Guardian

The proliferation of datacentres and AI is increasingly at the forefront of environmental litigation around the world, from the US and UK to Chile to Ireland, a report has found.

In an analysis of about 3,600 climate-related lawsuits filed since 2015, the latest annual review of climate litigation by the London School of Economics (LSE) found a growing number of cases challenging the energy sources, water consumption and air pollution of datacentres, all of which have related climate implications.

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