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chobeat@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 hours ago

Injuries and unpaid labour rampant at data centres built by Google and Microsoft

www.ftm.eu

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Injuries and unpaid labour rampant at data centres built by Google and Microsoft

www.ftm.eu

chobeat@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 hours ago
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Europe’s data centre industry is booming. But this comes at a cost: a five month investigation by Investigate Europe, Follow the Money and seven media partners found squalid living conditions, unpaid wages, and exploitative employment practices on construction sites – including on those run by tech giants like Google and Microsoft.
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    But i thought they were creating jobs for us? That’s their whole argument! They won’t try to justify the noise, the expense, the pollution, the water consumption, the massive amounts of electricity they consume–none of it

    The one thing they love to trot out is the jobs it will bring to the (soon to be industrially terrorized) community… Also without mention that the majority of those jobs are only going to exist during the construction phase. Once that’s done, there will be 1 employee per 50 acres of data center or some shit

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    No pay wall site

    https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/oct/30/electrocutions-disease-and-no-pay-how-workers-risk-exploitation-in-europes-datacentres

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