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How does automated decision-making effect our daily lives? Where are the systems applied and what happens when something goes wrong? Read our journalistic investigations on the current use of ADM systems and their consequences.

May 15, 2026

#datacenters #sustainability

The murky mechanics of data centers’ green electricity

The German Energy Efficiency Act is under review. The government should change the rules for data centers. As they stand, a data center can be labeled “green” even if it runs entirely on fossil gas.

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A gas-powered powerplant in New York
Photo by Alex Simpson on Unsplash

April 17, 2026

How “existential risk” became the AI industry’s most successful strategy

Members of the Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme taking part in a Wargaming exercise.

April 2, 2026

Where the army does not use AI

March 20, 2026

AI probably does lead to more computer security disasters

Datacenter Equinix AM3/AM4 Amsterdam

March 6, 2026

Maybe there is no AI bubble

February 20, 2026

Never tell an AI you’re from Naples

A neon sign says "UCK FRONTEX" in Hamburg, 2014.

February 12, 2026

Frontex is building an ‘AI chatbot app’ to encourage repatriations

Prunksaal der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek

January 23, 2026

Large language models as attributes of statehood

January 21, 2026

Despite plenty of renewable energy, data centers split Norwegian society

An advert for Palmona, a brand of artificial butter, ca. 1914

January 9, 2026

What artificial butter tells us about Artificial Intelligence

View of chimneys from Poolbeg Power Station and Poolbeg Incinerator, across Grand Canal Dock, Dublin.

December 18, 2025

What Ireland’s Data Center Crisis Means for the EU’s AI Sovereignty Plans

A person cleaning the entrance of an office building.

December 12, 2025

Platform work regulation is failing cleaners

Blue illustration showing a person running on a treadmill, surrounded by symbolic elements of digital connectivity: on the left, a smoking factory and a server rack connected to the person through a cable, on the right, multiple speech bubbles and a group of persons.

November 25, 2025

Germany’s Data Center Boom is Pushing the Power Grid to its Limits

close-up photo of Goosebumps Slappy the Dummy ventriloquist doll

November 14, 2025

Are all LLMs the same? I set out to measure their similarity.

3 Pfeile symbol on red-purple background

November 14, 2025

Why left-wing parties are not pushing for GenAI

Abstract human figures take part in a protest and hold up placards. The placards display images and slogans against the environmental damage caused by AI or the tech industry.

November 13, 2025

How to Resist Data Centers: A Guide For Local Communities in Europe

A photographic rendering of a simulated middle-aged white woman against a black background, seen through a refractive glass grid and overlaid with a distorted diagram of a neural network.

October 31, 2025

An AI slop farm stole my identity

Excerpt from Fingerprints by Francis Galton

October 17, 2025

Remote biometric identification is a colonial boomerang

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama

October 6, 2025

AI avatars have been in politics for a decade, but Diella is different

View of the French lower house of Parliament.

October 2, 2025

For politicians, TikTok’s algorithm is a handy bogeyman

A screen in a church with a racoon displayed.

September 19, 2025

AI Jesus: What’s left of Pope Francis’ guidance?

Pixelated images of pregnant women running on a race track, dynamically posed but distorted due to limited data availability. They are holding cards that read “error cannot generate,” symbolizing the struggle to accurately represent such dynamic figures due to inadequate online resources.

September 3, 2025

Flagged by the Algorithm: Klarna Thought I’m a Fraudster

Beautiful purple woman surrounded by nature illustration

August 27, 2025

(When) Will AI Improve Women’s Health? 

Illustrations of six data workers, working at computers in isolation from each other. Painted background includes hazy image of cubicles; digital overlay of glass fractures.

August 9, 2025

The AI Revolution Comes With the Exploitation of Gig Workers 

An illustration of a mountain resembling a data center and the affected community at the bottom.

July 24, 2025

Infrastructure or Intrusion? Europe’s Conflicted Data Center Expansion

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