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Protesters break into Microsoft data center site in Amsterdam

Hacker News | Nov 6, 2026 | novaRom

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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. 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.

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