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.
Solar power became the single largest source of electricity generated inside Luxembourg in 2025, overtaking wind, according to figures from the regulator ILR. Photovoltaic output rose 74.3% to 627 GWh, but imports still met roughly 72% of national consumption, underlining how far the country remains from its 2030 renewables goals.
An explosion at the Barzan gas facility in Qatar's Ras Laffan complex killed 13 workers and injured 66 during a plant restart. The energy minister called it an accident, ruled out sabotage and said LNG exports were not affected — a relief to a European market already strained by Gulf tensions.
Washington has issued a 60-day general licence authorising the sale of Iranian crude, the first such opening since 2018. The move, tied to an interim deal over the Strait of Hormuz, pushed Brent lower and could ease Europe's energy-driven inflation.