Area of work: Challenging the size and power of Big Tech

Foxglove and South African housing movement object to new hyperscale data centre over critical gaps in water, energy and environmental information! 

The objection says a new 160 MVA data centre can’t be approved as no information has been provided on water, emissions or environmental impact. 

Press release: Brazil regulator to investigate Google AI’s theft of news 

Brazil’s competition regulator today [23 April] voted unanimously to open a formal investigation into Google’s practice of taking journalists’ work, …

Government concedes Woodlands data centre case! Environmental protections promised by new data centres must now be legally binding

The Government said it made a “serious logical error” forcing the project through when environmental mitigation measures weren’t legally binding.

Foxglove teams up with FT to debunk the Government’s dodgy AI Growth Zone job creation claims 

Hyperscale data centres are unlikely to create thousands of new jobs. We’ve been digging into the detail behind Government’s job creation claims.

Press release: UK regulator action on Google must secure meaningful urgent opt-out from AI scraping

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) today announced proposals which could help to reduce the damage caused to independent news publishers …

Press release: UK Government admits “serious error” in forcing through hyperscale data centre without environmental protections 

This is the first time the UK government has admitted its decision to force through a new hyperscale data centre was wrong. It’s a big win.

The European Commission has opened an investigation into Google AI Overviews!

This is a big win. Now the regulator needs to protect independent new publishers while this investigation into Google stealing the news is underway.

We’ve hit our UK data centre challenge Crowdjustice target! PLUS – new report: 10 new data centres would wipe out ALL annual carbon savings from electric cars

We’re still crowdfunding for our stretch goal to contribute to staff time on the case, so if you’d like to donate, it’s not too late!