Donald Trump has threatened tariffs after the EU fined Google under the Digital Markets Act. Luxembourg's direct US trade is limited, but its open economy and financial centre remain exposed to a wider dispute.
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.
The Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg on 2 July 2026 dismissed Google and Alphabet's final appeal in the Android antitrust case, confirming a €4.125 billion fine — the largest ever upheld by the EU's highest court. The judgment ends a saga that began with the European Commission's 2018 decision and cements Brussels' most consequential victory in its decade-long campaign against Big Tech.
Europe's top court is due to hand down its unappealable judgment on the record €4.125 billion fine imposed on Google for abusing the dominance of Android. The ruling caps a case that began in 2018 and will set the ceiling for classic EU tech-antitrust enforcement as the Digital Markets Act takes over.