Activists are battling a vast Google data center in the Austrian countryside.
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KRONSTORF, Austria — One sleepy village nestled in the foothills of the Alps may soon devour more electricity than all the households of Vienna.
It is all thanks to Google.
The American tech giant is building Austria’s first hyperscale data center on the outskirts of tiny Kronstorf, a two-hour drive from the capital. The site could eventually consume the equivalent of 7 percent of the country’s current power demand.
Google is building a 50-hectare 'energy-gobbling' AI data centre on farmland in Austria, sparking outrage from locals.
Des militants s’opposent à l’implantation d’un immense centre de données de Google dans la campagne autrichienne.
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