AI Infrastructure Boom Faces ‘Global Blockade’: Construction Restrictions Cross the Atlantic, Microsoft Amsterdam Project Becomes the Eye of the Storm

The “construction restriction wave” on AI data centers sparked by the US midterm elections is now spreading across the Atlantic to Europe. According to Jinse Finance APP, on Friday local time, a group of protesters broke into a Microsoft (MSFT.US) data center construction site in Amsterdam, marking the start of a two-day assembly. This is part of the growing global wave of resistance against the rapid expansion of computing power required by AI.