AS PROPOSALS for new hyperscale data centres queue up in the Scottish planning system, communities across Scotland are fighting back ...

A new study finds that Palantir, which boasts of high profit margins in the U.S., barely scrapes a margin in Europe, which helps slash its tax bill.

Governor who touted Texas as AI “epicenter” pauses data center grid connections.

Michelle Thorne, Aurora Gomez Delgado, Fieke Jansen and Rosi Leonard argue the EU should pause new data centers until it proves they are in the public interest.

• Freedom of Information responses from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) reveal four of the nine companies backed by the government's £500m Sovereign AI Fund are ultimately...

Emerging research suggests datacentres create a heat island effect, pushing up temperatures in the immediate vicinity by as much as 9C

By approving the first Digital Omnibus on 16 June, the European Parliament has taken a worrying step towards weakening a decade of digital rights protections.

A living directory of ways communities resist AI harms—and build alternatives worth fighting for.

Tech sector says only carbon-emitting gas plants are reliable enough today to power the EU’s AI goals.

Europeans, including Belgians, were asked about their use of generative AI, the EU's foreign tech dependencies, and how they think AI should be regulated.

In partnership with the AI Now Institute, this series explores the European AI market and tests the assumptions left implicit in EU policy documents.

While Theo Francken has condemned student protesters for their behaviour last week, the police have also come under scrutiny for allegedly heavy-handed tactics.

Brussels must require tech companies to disclose data centers’ energy and water use, Leena Ylä-Mononen says.

A new divide is emerging: between workers who use AI at work and those who are managed by it

Strong oversight and real sanctions are needed to avoid derailing the transition and keep the market fair and reliable, says Axelle Van Wynsberghe of Finance Watch.

Strong oversight and real sanctions are needed to avoid derailing the transition and keep the market fair and reliable, says Axelle Van Wynsberghe of Finance Watch.

Europe’s Digital Markets Act was designed to lead a global antitrust crackdown on tech. But the Act’s impact has been limited and few countries are following.

BEP’s new paper reveals how Big Tech and Big Finance manufactured the AI data centre boom, driving structural dependencies and urging a moratorium on new approvals.

Legally questionable confidentiality clause adopted almost word for word from demands of Microsoft and trade groups

Behind most AI products are thousands of workers who label, annotate, and clean data. Their work is essential but largely precarious and invisible.

The race to power AI is already remaking the physical world.

The technology is increasing the speed, density and complexity of work rather than reducing it, a new analysis of 164,000 people’s work activity shows.

Pressure is growing to drop the appointment of a former Meta lobbyist, elected as an MEP in 2024, from a file which could rewrite the EU's regulation of US tech giants.

Republicans fear backlash against White House agenda could undermine support in this year’s midterm elections

In the third part of our blog series, we look at how the availability of systems is impacted by the proliferation of large language models.

It’s not what we can or cannot say that matters – rather, it’s whether what we say can get any visibility at all under the US-specific algorithm, says academic Paolo Gerbaudo

In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.

Cory Doctorow’s “Enshittification” is premised on the idea that we created a technological marvel and then corporate greed ruined it. But what if that is not the case?

A year into its new mandate and the European Commission is reversing course when it comes to safeguarding human rights in the EU.

US vice president says EU should not be ‘attacking American companies over garbage.’

A paper published in the journal Science found that chatbots become more persuasive when they share large amounts of information.

We are workers, activists and citizens from across the globe. From Black Friday to Cyber Monday (28 November to 1 December) we rise up united to Make Amazon Pay.

Amazon Employees for Climate Justice says that over 1,000 workers have signed a petition raising “serious concerns” about the company’s “aggressive rollout” of artificial intelligence tools.

As the demands of AI grow, each generation of microchips requires more energy, minerals and water to produce, driving a ruinous cycle.