US tech firms lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret

> the pollution that individual datacentres emit

This is a reductive framing of the problem. The power grid fuel mix is what determines most of this. There are some cases of on-site generation (which is definitely not ideal), but this can also be addressed with a better grid.

You can argue that the data centers shouldn't be built until the grid can catch up, which I think is probably the most defensible argument a Luddite could offer right now. I'd get on board with that one if it was presented rationally. However, it does appear that the environmental arguments are merely a means to and end for some. Quotes like this make it hard to not see the underlying goals.

Waiting for the brigade of HN users crying ablut how EU regulations are "bad for business"