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The Alderman Finds It 'Highly Undesirable' that the New Data Center Will Be Entirely in the Hands of Microsoft

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Alderman Alexander Scholtes (D66) calls it "highly undesirable" that the new data center in the Western Port Area will be used by a single large, non-European company: Microsoft. According to Scholtes, the national government must ensure that the Netherlands has better control over who gets access to its data capacity in the future. In 2022, it was announced that three data center towers would be built in the Western Port Area. Three, because th…
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Alderman Alexander Scholtes (D66) calls it "highly undesirable" that the new data center in the Western Port Area will be used by a single large, non-European company: Microsoft. According to Scholtes, the national government must ensure that the Netherlands has better control over who gets access to its data capacity in the future. In 2022, it was announced that three data center towers would be built in the Western Port Area. Three, because th…

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AT5 broke the news in on Wednesday, January 28, 2026.
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