NEW CASE LAUNCH: Foxglove launches UK’s first legal challenge against the construction of a hyperscale data centre and to defend our power, water and environment 

Hyperscale data centres guzzle drinking water and electrical power and emit polluting emissions, but Rayner said no environmental tests were needed.

Nearly 3K Foxglove supporters tell Wes Streeting: No Palantir In Our NHS! 

Every letter tells government they can’t sweep Palantir’s dodgy NHS deal under the carpet and pretend it’s supported by the public. 

Area of work: Protect NHS data for the public good

REVEALED: Google’s news-stealing chatbot is pinching 79% of traffic from real journalists 

Google isn’t just nicking the work of human reporters – it’s stealing the clicks that helped pay for that work in the first place. 

Area of work: Challenging the size and power of Big Tech
amazon data centre blot on landscape

Drinking water and data centres: 10 billion litres of H2O, floods of sewage and our legal challenge to the biggest centre in planning permission in the UK

We’ve launched a challenge against the construction of a data centre where the water problem looks particularly bad – and pretty gross.  

MPs cite Foxglove in report on how social media algorithms helped to created danger on UK streets last summer

We submitted evidence drawing on our experience with how toxic content online leads to bloody and horrific consequences in the real world. 

Area of work: Challenging unfair algorithms

NEW CASE: Foxglove launches international legal challenge to Google’s worldwide theft of news! 

Google is stealing the work of professional reporters – and making it worse – without compensating them, nor their publishers.

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

Foxglove and Global Action Plan put in submissions opposing second UK data centre – at Houghton Regis in Bedfordshire

To build new hyperscale data centres, the government must show they have a plan that won’t trash our supplies of power and drinking water. 

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

The government is getting its wallet inspected by Big Tech – that’s a threat to our health, our small businesses and our democracy

The old boss of Amazon UK has been put in charge of regulating Big Tech, while the head of Microsoft UK chairs the Industrial Strategy Council.

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