European lawmakers are pressuring the European Commission to make environmental information from highly polluting data centres publicly available in upcoming rules, citing a deep-dive investigation by corporate watchdogs showing the EU executive is “copy-pasting” text suggested by Microsoft.
“It is one thing for Microsoft to seek to protect its interests; it is quite another for the Commission to incorporate its demands almost word for word into European law,” Greens/EFA lawmaker David Cormand (France) told Euronews, commenting on the report by the watchdog Corporate Europe Observatory and AlgorithmWatch.
