By Marta Pacheco
Publication Date: 2026-05-27 11:29:00
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.
In a recent letter addressed to Environment Commissioner Jessika Roswal, 35 Green and Socialist MEPs asked the EU executive to delete a Microsoft amendment and restore “full transparency” regarding the environmental impact of data centres.
The signatories argue that the EU executive’s draft rules include text “almost word-for-word identical to wording suggested by the US tech…
