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Amsterdam Officials Challenged as They Mull Limits On Data Centers As the City Council prepares to vote on new restrictions on data centers, the industry is questioning the energy consumption estimates the restrictions are based on. As Amsterdam City Council prepares to cast an historic vote to impose environmental rules and building restrictions on data centers, the data center industry has raised questions about the calculations by which the city justified its move. Elected officials in...

Ij lake, Amsterdam, 2013 Amsterdam’s Next Data Center Clusters Will Be Built Out of Town The city is out of space and power, and there are signs of government and industry agreement on a new location. Now, they have to convince the public. Amsterdam is preparing to build its next cluster of data centers in a neighboring county, after officials and experts concluded that the capital does not have the space to accommodate the mushrooming number of gigantic hi-tech warehouses nor the elec...