Microsoft Data Center Project Near Mulhouse Receives a Favourable Opinion, It Must Occupy About 35 Hectares
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In the Upper Rhine, the Microsoft data centre project receives three favourable opinions despite 535 unfavorable contributions, including on energy, water and agricultural land.
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Despite the 80% opposition of citizens' contributions, the two-billion-euro project has to be launched as early as 2029 on 35 hectares of agricultural land. Environmental associations denounce in particular its high consumption of electricity and water.
On Monday, August 24, the Commissioner responsible for the public inquiry into the construction of a Microsoft data center near Mulhouse gave a favourable opinion.
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Concrete against agricultural land. The power of calculation against local will. In Alsace, a giant data center project has just taken a key step, drawing a clear line of fracture between technological imperatives and citizen concerns.
Microsoft gets the green light to build in Alsace a data center dedicated to the AI, a 2 billion euro project that already crystallises the tensions around energy, water and the artificialization of land.
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