marketNovember 6, 2026
Protesters enter Microsoft data center site in Amsterdam
In Amsterdam, about a hundred activists got onto the construction site of a Microsoft data center complex, Reuters reports. The facility consists of three towers 85 meters tall.
Some participants climbed a crane and unfurled a banner opposing AI. The protesters voiced disagreement with the construction of data centers and with Microsoft's cooperation with Israel.
A ban on new data centers is in effect in the city until 2030. At the same time, the project that Pure Data Centres is carrying out for Microsoft was planned back in 2016, and its construction continues.
For crypto holders and exchangers, the news matters as background: it shows that data center construction in Amsterdam faces public resistance despite the city's existing ban.