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| Sep 28, 2026 | South Africa: 'We Were Never Consulted' - Cape Town Residents Challenge Equinix Data Centre | Rezoning appeal has temporarily halted plans
About 70 activists and community representatives attended a panel discussion about the possible impact of a proposed hyperscale data centre in Cape Town.
The application to rezone King Air Indust... |
| Sep 17, 2026 | Cape Town to write new rules for big data centre applications | The City of Cape Town is drafting new development guidelines for large data centre applications, its first public acknowledgement that the approvals process needs changing, and has confirmed that the rezoning it granted in July for a hypers... |
| Aug 26, 2026 | AI Datacenters Would Out-Pollute ExxonMobil UK as Grid Crisis Fuels Gas Lock-In | By Clark Johnson
Published: Aug 26 2026, 9:39 AM EDT
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| Jul 14, 2026 | South Africa: Two Giant Data Centres Secure Initial Green Light From Cape Town Municipal Tribunal | The building of two massive water-hungry and energy-hungry data centres next to Cape Town International Airport has cleared the first regulatory hurdle.
An application that paves the way for two new data centres totalling more than 120,000 ... |
| Jul 14, 2026 | South Africa: Giant Data Centres Get the First Green Light From Cape Town Tribunal | Two massive water-hungry and energy-hungry data centres are proposed next to the airport
The Cape Town Municipal Planning Tribunal on Tuesday approved an application by land owner King David Country Club that paves the way for the developme... |
| Jul 3, 2026 | Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Making The Best Of A Ban Situation | Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw.
Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of cho... |
| May 18, 2026 | Activists challenge 160MW Cape Town data centre project | A plan by US-listed Equinix to build two data centres in Cape Town should not be approved without full disclosure of its water, power and environmental impact, a formal objection lodged with city planners shows.
The Housing Assembly (HA), a... |
| May 14, 2026 | Britain’s data centres are eating the grid – and we underestimated the damage | UK data centre emissions forecasts have been revised upward 100-fold. London’s server farms already consume more power than all its households combined. So why did it take this long to do the maths?
Data centres are consuming six per cent o... |
| Jan 26, 2026 | Government Admits Data Centres Plans “Should Be Quashed” Over Environmental Concerns | The UK government appears to be u-turning on its approval of a hyperscale data centre planned for a greentbelt area outside of London following pushback from the local council and environmental advocates.
Plans were approved for a 90MW data... |
| Aug 21, 2025 | UK faces legal challenge over attempt to force through data center development | Campaigners in the U.K. filed a formal planning statutory review asking a court to quash the government’s approval of a new 90-megawatt data center on green belt land.
Last month, British Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner granted planning... |
| Nov 24, 2022 | Meta and Amazon under legal spotlight in UK over surveillance | Meta and Amazon are being challenged in two separate cases over data collection for competitive advantage and surveillance-based advertising.
A lawsuit has been filed against Facebook parent firm Meta at London's High Court, demanding that ... |
| Dec 8, 2021 | The U.K.’s new AI transparency standard is a step closer to accountable AI | Did you miss a session from the Future of Work Summit? Head over to our Future of Work Summit on-demand library to stream.
The UK government announced last week a new algorithmic transparency standard. The move follows a year when the UK’s ... |
| Dec 8, 2021 | The U.K.’s new AI transparency standard is a step closer to accountable AI | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The UK government announced last week a new algor... |
| Nov 23, 2020 | Facebook Moderators Claim They Are Asked To Risk Their Lives | A group Facebook moderators have published an open letter to company executives, in which they claim they have been put at risk. As reported by Fox Glove this risk mostly surrounds being forced to work during the pandemic. However, the lett... |
| Nov 21, 2020 | Facebook Moderators Want Remote Work, Hazard Pay | Facebook moderators are protesting the company’s decision to require them to come back to the office amid the pandemic.
For months, Facebook allowed content moderators to work from home. Recently, however, the company required them to come ... |
| Nov 19, 2020 | Facebook offers up first-ever estimate of hate speech prevalence on its platform | By Elizabeth Culliford, Katie Paul
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(Reuters) - Facebook Inc for the first time on Thursday disclosed numbers on the prevalence of hate speech on its platform, saying that out of every 10,000 content views in the third quarter, 10... |
| Nov 18, 2020 | Facebook content moderators demand safer working conditions | A group of more than 200 Facebook content moderators, as well as some full-time employees,* are demanding the tech company “stop needlessly risking moderators’ lives,” they wrote in an open letter to Facebook and the company’s contractors t... |
| Nov 16, 2020 | Gmail users get new controls for data used to personalize Google’s ‘smart’ features | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Google is introducing new controls for data it us... |
| Nov 16, 2020 | Gmail users get new controls for data used to personalize Google’s ‘smart’ features | Google is introducing new controls for data it uses to personalize various “smart” features across its suite of products. This means Gmail users will soon be able to access a setting that stipulates whether their Gmail, Chat, or Meet data c... |
| Sep 14, 2020 | Google Sued For $3 Billion in the UK Over YouTube Privacy | Google is being sued for $3 billion in the UK over allegations that YouTube tracks children, violating the UK’s privacy laws.
Google has been facing ongoing scrutiny over privacy and antitrust concerns, but this latest lawsuit could be one ... |
| Sep 14, 2020 | YouTube hit with UK class action style suit seeking $3BN+ for ‘unlawful’ use of kids’ data | Another class action style lawsuit has been lodged against a tech giant in the U.K. alleging violations of privacy and seeking major damages. The latest representative action, filed against Google-owned YouTube, accuses the platform of rout... |
| Aug 4, 2020 | UK commits to redesign visa streaming algorithm after challenge to ‘racist’ tool | The U.K. government is suspending the use of an algorithm used to stream visa applications after concerns were raised the technology bakes in unconscious bias and racism.
The tool had been the target of a legal challenge. The Joint Council ... |
| Ethiopians sue Meta for $1.6bn for failing to remove hateful content | Leo Komminoth
December 23rd 2022 •
East Africa •
Technology & Information
Two Ethiopians have filed a lawsuit in Kenya’s High Court in Nairobi against US tech giant Meta, the owner of Facebook, for failing to prevent the spread of harmf... |
| Why content moderation costs billions and is so tricky for Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and others | After the riots at the Capitol on January 6, debate is swirling over how platforms moderate content and what is protected as free speech.
It’s a messy and expensive process, with Facebook spending billions to review millions of pieces of co... |
| YouTube грозят иском на 2,5 миллиарда фунтов за нарушение приватности детей | Технический исследователь Дункан Макканн подал иск в Верховный суд Великобритании против YouTube — он утверждает, что видеохостинг нарушает законы о конфиденциальности информации о детях в Соединённом Королевстве, и требует возмещения ущерб... |
| Украинские модераторы Facebook являются самыми низкооплачиваемыми и не получают премий | Украинские модераторы Facebook являются самыми низкооплачиваемыми и не получают премий
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Модераторы контента в Facebook, которые работают в штате компании-подрядчика Accenture, жалуются на низкие зар... |