Protesters Across Europe To Call For Freeze On Energy Hungry Data Centres
European Protesters Demand Data Centres Be Frozen Solid, Bring Own Ice
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM. Thousands of protesters gathered outside data centres across Europe this week to call for a freeze on the facilities, a demand organizers clarified by dumping roughly 40 tonnes of ice onto a server farm parking lot.
“People keep saying data centres run hot,” said rally organizer Margit Vellekoop, 34, shoveling cubes into an air intake vent. “We are simply meeting them where they are. In this case, at minus four degrees.”
Facility managers reported that the servers have never performed better, with one technician noting that latency dropped by half the moment a man in a parka began pouring a bag of gas station ice directly onto a rack.
At press time, a delegation from Iceland had offered to host every data centre on the continent, provided protesters stopped bringing their own ice, which officials described as “frankly a little insulting.”