When it comes to AI, the EU simply has to stop buying into self-interested corporate narratives around the AI Race – whether they come from the US or the EU – as synonymous with the public interest, writes Margarida Silva.

Accurate reporting is important, but it is absolutely not enough Industries must not be allowed to operate by dumping the environmental and social cost onto the rest of society for their own profit

💥 After 35 MEPs urged the Commission not to hide data centre environmental info, the @eea.europa.eu is now joining the call The pressure comes after reporting by @investigate-europe.eu with contributions from CEO ‼️ Time for the Commission to drop the Microsoft amendment on data centre secrecy

The EU must ensure tech companies disclose the ecological footprint of their data centers, the head of the bloc’s environment agency has said.

Not just lobbying! our new paper maps 27 mechanisms of regulatory capture used by Big AI + 11 narrative framings that rationalise capture. “Big AI’s Regulatory Capture: Mapping Industry Interference and Government Complicity” will be presented at #FAccT2026 next month arxiv.org/abs/2605.068... 1/

The CEO of a major climate denier group, the Heartland Institute, brought a new AI-era twist on an old message at ALEC's 2025 annual meeting: Bring back coal - to fire massive data centers. buff.ly/9evS4eu

How significant is support in the European Parliament for efforts to undermine the Digital Services Act, and how does that support align with criticism from the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress? Tech Policy Press contributing editor Dean Jackson collected public evidence.

Workers make Europe. Not deregulation. Not austerity. Not a race to the bottom. Europe’s future must be built on investment, strong industries, quality jobs and workers having a real say at work. We make Europe #UnionMade

🚨 Today 35 MEPs are writing to the Commission to scrap unlawful secrecy on data centres' environmental information. A month ago, @investigate-europe.eu revealed that the EU Commission copy-pasted a Microsoft amendment to keep crucial data under wraps. 💥 That secrecy is now being challenged

Happy with this decision and hope many other European countries will follow. Obviously, there are many more problems to state surveillance than Palentir, but in most cases these problems of abuse… in the case of Palentir, the core is rotten!

Tech companies aren't *just* building literal gas infrastructure. They are building rhetorical and empirical greenwashing infrastructure, so they can lie to investors, customers, and the general public about the shockingly severe and acute impacts of their carbon bomb data centre projects.

Ripping up EU permitting rules isn't abstract. Materially, it makes it even harder to: 🚧 Stop new pipelines ⛰️ Block new mines 🖥️ Reject new data centres 💧 Resists new mega-basins 🛫 Refuse new airports EU+industry are taking away our tools to fight damaging new infrastructure. #Permission2Pollute

EU Commission's 'Better Regulation' reform institutionalises undemocratic highspeed #deregulation methods 🚨 Instead of halting its methods for producing #Omnibus proposals at speed, the Commission intends to change its rules to enable more of this 😠 New post: corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...

Touted as a key part of the EU's #competitiveness strategy, the framework - also labeled #EUInc after the campaign of the same name, funded by #BigTech - aims to enable 'innovative' companies to operate under a single, harmonised set of EU-wide rules

⚠️The #28thRegime - 'EU Inc' - poses a risk to workers' rights New policy brief just out 🧵 👇

This is really grim. Imagine a different world. @tninstitute.bsky.social

🚨 NEW REPORT: EU handing industry #Permission2Pollute 🚨 At the request of oil&gas, mining + BigTech lobbyists, the Commission is ripping up permitting rules to fast-track polluting projects like pipelines, mines + data centres. Read more corporateeurope.org/en/2026/05/permission-pollute 👇 🧵 1/6

Last week the EU Parliament and member states reached a deal on the AI Omnibus. This is only a first step in the EU's misguided plans to weaken the digital rulebook to please big business and the Trump administration. Read here how the AI Omnibus weakens digital rights and adds legal complexity 👇

A German newspaper reports that @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu has personally intervened to postpone the fine against Google for violating the Digital Markets Act. We call on the EU Commission president to enforce the DMA and fine Google without further delay. 🚨 static1.squarespace.com/static/5e449...

'Dark tech', right-wing populists, and a power grab via digital monopolies... Can we still turn things around?

Writing as part of our ongoing Hype Studies series, legal scholar Hannah Ruschemeier writes that the European Commission’s current 'Omnibus' proposal for the 'simplification' of EU digital regulation perfectly illustrates that AI hype has now arrived at the heart of European lawmaking.

🗓️ "Fight for Us, not for Them: A public interest vision for EU tech policy” summit is going to take place on 23 June 2026! 📢 With 10 other CSOs, we will convene European regulators, journalists & civil society to discuss the EU’s deregulation agenda and its impact on fundamental rights.

I got inside a European AI energy summit in Brussels last month, and the mood among gas industry players was buzzing. The UK and EU are about to unveil regs determining whether Europe's AI boom can be gas powered - even if its a disaster for the climate. Will they bow to Big Tech pressure? More👇

They trained AI. Now AI could take their jobs. It's happening to 100s of contracted Meta workers in Dublin right now, and it's coming near you soon. Organize. Demand a seat at the table. Show solidarity w/ Digital And Techworker Alliance (DATA). https://ow.ly/Lmkw50YRzGq

How transparent is the EU in practice? Our latest Secrecy Tracker newsletter looks at how data centre rules keep key environmental data out of reach, a €1.2m court redesign under fire, and a surge in AI-driven complaints, ending with a closed-door transparency event.

By far the greatest, and accelerating, security threat to humanity is climate catastrophe, which no tank can stop. It could yet however be arrested if only the world's states diverted a fraction of the nearly $3 trillion they allocated in 2025 to military expenditure: www.sipri.org/media/press-...

Months of investigative work at @foxglovelegal.bsky.social, now covered in the Guardian, have led me to one inexorable conclusion: the government hasn’t a bloody clue what it’s doing about data centre carbon emissions. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

NEW: Palantir’s revolving door. A new investigation by @thenerve.news has found Palantir has recruited more than 30 senior officials from UK govt, a strategy transparency experts say poses an ‘acute risk’ of corruption. 1/ Link ⬇️

Thanks to everyone who joined us for a webinar on our report 'This is what corporate capture looks like!' by its main author, @kennethhaar.bsky.social ! If you didn't manage to, you can: watch the webinar 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs6n... check out the report 👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/04/w...

1. Amazon has built powerful pricing algorithms that have learned how to steer prices upward — not just on Amazon, but across the web. I have a new piece on how these algorithms work, and how they help sustain Amazon’s monopoly.

“We can defeat them, the big tech industry has a playbook, but we also have a playbook” said @bramvranken.bsky.social in conversation with @carolecadwalla.bsky.social , @margaridasilva.bsky.social and @nataliaviana.bsky.social , at #ijf26 conference

"Palantir is not just a problem of profiteering from our national healthcare system— it's a fundamental threat to the democratic control of our public infrastructure + the privacy of every citizen. By giving our taxes to this company, we are aiding their operations everywhere." tinyurl.com/3ejuyv89

Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history. Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes. But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year. Trickle down hoax.

Microsoft and other US tech companies successfully lobbied the EU to hide the environmental toll of their data centers, Investigate Europe reports in collaboration with Tech Policy Press and other media partners.

"We reject the accusation of ad verbatim copy-pasting of industry lobbying," the EU Commission told AFP in response to our latest Investigate Europe investigation exposing how big tech wrote a law that hides their data centre's environmental footprint. Well, judge for yourself.

Copy, paste, govern: Microsoft ghostwrote EU policy that keeps data centers’ energy use secret The latest investigation by @investigate-europe.eu is based on insights by @algorithmwatch.org and @corporateeurope.org Read the incredible story here: algorithmwatch.org/en/copy-past...

New: Big Tech secures secrecy in EU data centre law, keeping critical environmental information out of reach. Microsoft and DigitalEurope – a lobby representing Amazon, Google and Meta – successfully pushed for an amendment classifying information on individual facilities as confidential.

An incredible story of how the Commission copy-pasted a Microsoft amendment to keep crucial environmental information on data centres hidden. Great to have worked on this with @algorithmwatch.org and thanks to @investigate-europe.eu to dig into the story.

Big Tech wrote the EU law that hides their data centres' environmental impact. The EU wants to triple its data centre capacity in the next five years. While the full scale of their energy and water footprint is hidden from the public. Our new @investigate-europe.eu investigation reveals why.

✊ We were honoured to join the launching event of the German coalition against deregulation! 👏 @powershift.bsky.social @globalpolicyforum.bsky.social @buerokratiemonster.bsky.social @finanzwende.de @lobbycontrol.bsky.social &+! 👀DeregulationWatch for info on EU corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...

Oh my what a Schlapp in the face this is

Thrilled to be going to @journalismfestival.com to talk Big Tech lobbying with the amazing @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @nataliaviana.bsky.social @bramvranken.bsky.social If you are around and want to know how to expose Big Tech power, join us! www.journalismfestival.com/programme/20...

‼️Please sign & help spread this EU citizens’ initiative to suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement It’s really important — we’re almost at 700,000 signatures!! eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...

🇭🇺 As we wait to know on Sunday the future of Hungary, the chances of Orbán’s defeat give hope that the rise of far-right in Europe can be stopped. But his propaganda machine has spread over Europe. We’ve been looking into it, here’s what we know: 🧵👇

📢 In the context of the ongoing trilogue negotiations on the #AI Omnibus proposal, together with 32 other organisations and individuals, we contributed to an open letter to EU institutions, expressing our concerns about current proposals that could weaken the scope and effectiveness of the AI Act.

If so, Europe must abandon the omnibus deregulatory onslaught and instead resuscitate its ability to plan the damn green transition

The EU’s plan to delay key provisions of its AI Act could leave some high-risk AI systems permanently unregulated, reports Joana Soares. While nudifier apps face a ban, sector-specific carve-outs and postponed deadlines raise concerns about weakened oversight.

An energy crisis is not a crisis for *everyone* Since the war in Iran started, oil companies in the EU have been getting an EXTRA €81.4 million in profit EVERY DAY as the prices of petrol and diesel go through the roof Governments and the EU must tax these profits to help ordinary people

What do they all want? The answer is simple: to be free of the pesky meddling of regulators and legislators. They want to stop federal and state government regulation of the tech industry in general and artificial intelligence in particular.

Despite Elbit's fuelling of genocide, European defense company KNDS agrees 50:50 joint venture with Israel-based Elbit Systems to market EuroPULS rocket artillery system #BusinessAsUsual thedefensepost.com/2026/03/27/k...