🇮🇪 🇫🇮Data-center protests drew approximately 2,000 participants in Dublin and 1,300 in Helsinki, with additional demonstrations in smaller Finnish towns.

Demonstrations against data centers continued across several European locations on Saturday, November 7. The supplied report gives approximate attendance of 2,000 in Dublin and 1,300 in Helsinki, while reporting additional protests in smaller Finnish towns without attendance figures.

Participants expressed concerns about the social and environmental effects of data-center development. The report identifies Stop Dirty Data Centers, a coalition of local-democracy and climate-protest groups, as one organization articulating the movement’s objectives.

A coalition representative said its aims included restraining unchecked AI data-center expansion and preventing technology-industry interests from dominating democratic decision-making. These statements describe the protesters’ position; the message does not document specific permit changes, project cancellations, or measured environmental impacts resulting from the demonstrations.