约 100 名抗议者闯入 Microsoft 阿姆斯特丹数据中心在建工地
Protesters break into Microsoft data center site in Amsterdam
- 1据路透社，约 100 名抗议者闯入 Microsoft 阿姆斯特丹数据中心在建工地，有人爬上起重机挂反 AI 横幅
- 2项目为三座 85 米高塔，2016 年立项，由 Pure Data Centres 开发并借漏洞推进施工，Microsoft 为唯一租户
- 3同周都柏林出现针对 Microsoft 数据中心的抗议，美国多地选民本周否决了数据中心无序扩建
- 4Microsoft 上月放弃英国最大数据中心项目，因电网官员称该场地要到 2030 年代才能供电
AI 数据中心扩建在欧洲同时遭遇社区抗议、电网容量与政策限制，选址与供电约束正在成为扩张的主要阻力。
- 影响：欧洲多地对新建数据中心设禁令或遭民意抵制，依赖该区域云与 AI 算力的企业扩容可能面临排队；英国项目因电网供电推迟至 2030 年代而取消，供电时点可视为产能规划的硬约束；针对厂商的地缘政治抗议也在增加舆情与交付变数。
- 参考：可考虑盘点业务对欧洲区域云与 AI 算力的依赖清单，向供应商索取各区域扩容与供电时间表；做容灾与选址对比时，把审批限制和电网接入时点列入评分项；涉欧合作评估中可加入地缘政治舆情风险项。
- 依据：路透社口径约 100 人进入工地；阿姆斯特丹 2023 年底宣布暂停新建、其后禁令延至 2030 年；英国项目退出源于电网官方说法；美国投票与都柏林抗议为本周报道。
Tom Warren
is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years.
Protesters have broken into a construction site of a new Microsoft data center in Amsterdam this morning. Members of the Geef Tegengas group helped organize the protest against the construction of three 85-meter data center towers in the outskirts of Amsterdam.
Reuters reports that around 100 people made it into the construction site, with some scaling a crane to place a “fuck AI” banner. Protesters also unfurled a “Microsoft powers genocide” banner on the construction site, and chanted “Microsoft has got to go” and “free Palestine.”
Opposition to the new data center in Amsterdam comes more than a year after the city banned new data centers until 2030, after a temporary stop that was announced at the end of 2023. Microsoft will be the sole tenant of this new data center, and the project is proceeding as it was planned as far back as 2016, before a ban was put in place. The site, being built by British developer Pure Data Centres, has also managed to navigate some loopholes to reach the construction stage.
The protests over Microsoft’s data center site in Amsterdam comes in the same week that activists staged a mock Israeli military checkpoint outside a Microsoft data center in Dublin on Tuesday, part of a wave of data center protests across Europe. Earlier this week, voters across the US also rejected unrestrained development of data centers. AI data centers are continuing to pop up across the US, with frequent opposition from locals concerned about the impact on their communities.
Microsoft also abandoned the UK’s largest data center project last month, after local electricity grid officials said the site won’t be supplied with power until the 2030s. The software maker has also faced a wave of protests from former employees over the past year. Microsoft’s 50th anniversary party was interrupted by employees protesting the use of Microsoft’s technologies in Israel’s war against Hamas, with one calling Microsoft’s AI CEO, Mustafa Suleyman, a “war profiteer.“
A Microsoft employee also disrupted the company’s Build developer conference last year, interrupting Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s keynote. Months later, Microsoft fired two employee protesters who occupied its president’s office.
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- Tom Warren
来源：The Verge · AI · theverge.com