Protesters break into Microsoft data center site in Amsterdam

<figure> <img alt="" data-caption="Members of the action group Geef Tegengas put a banner on a crane during a protest. | Image: Getty Images" data-portal-copyright="Image: Getty Images" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/11/gettyimages-2303323844.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> Members of the action group Geef Tegengas put a banner on a crane during a protest. | Image: Getty Images </figcaption> </figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Protesters have broken into a construction site of a new Microsoft data center in Amsterdam this morning. Members of the Geef Tegengas group helped organize the protest against the construction of three 85-meter <a href="https://puredc.com/amsterdam">data center towers</a> in the outskirts of Amsterdam.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/protesters-enter-microsoft-data-centre-site-amsterdam-2026-11-06/"><em>Reuters </em>reports</a> that around 100 people made it into the construction site, with some scaling a crane to place a "fuck AI" banner. Protesters also unfurled a "Microsoft powers genocide" banner on the construction site, and chanted "Microsoft has got to go" and "free palestine."</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Opposition to the new data center in Amsterdam comes more than a year after the city <a href="https://nltimes.nl/2025/04/18/amsterdam-allowing-data-centers-municipality?utm_source=chatgpt.com">banned new data center …</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/1028549/protesters-microsoft-data-center-site-amsterdam">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>