Luxembourg's largest environmental NGO, Mouvement Écologique, is challenging the approval process for Google's planned hyperscale data centre in Bissen, threatening administrative court action over data secrecy, energy and water demand, and unused waste heat. The government backs the project as strategically vital; no final authorisation or Google go-ahead has been decided.
Google's long-delayed €1 billion data centre in Bissen has cleared a key planning hurdle even as an environmental review drew some 170 objections over water use, electricity demand and land take — a local flashpoint in Europe's wider reckoning with the energy cost of the AI boom.
Google and Amazon both reported rising carbon emissions for 2025 as electricity demand from AI data centres outstripped the growth of clean power, straining their net-zero pledges.
South Korea has unveiled a near-$1.2 trillion, decade-long push into semiconductors, AI and data centres led by Samsung and SK Hynix, in a state-orchestrated bet that towers over the EU's Chips Act.
France's domestic intelligence service will replace Palantir's software with French firm ChapsVision, an early test of European strategic autonomy in critical software that reaches data-heavy Luxembourg.