Protesters storm the Microsoft data centre site in Amsterdam as campaigners stage anti-data centre actions across Europe

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The Guardian reports that activists from the Dutch direct action group Geef Tegengas broke into the construction site of a Microsoft data centre at Westpoort, Amsterdam, on 6 November, with some climbing a crane and lighting flares. Police said force was used and one officer was slightly injured. The pan-European Stop Dirty Data Centres coalition, which says more than 100 groups took part in two days of protests calling for moratoria on new data centres, demonstrated outside the same site without entering it, and smaller protests took place in Bristol, Berlin, Warsaw and Zagreb. Microsoft said it respected the right to peaceful protest but did not condone unlawful actions. The site owner, Pure Data Centres, called entering a live construction site unlawful and dangerous.

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