TO THE PROTESTERS AND TO THE EUROPEAN GOVERNMENTS : On the Fifteen Countries, the Two Objections, the Architecture That Needs No Data Centre, and the Declaration That Answers ALCAPONE-LLM

On 6 and 7 November 2026, more than 100 civil society and grassroots groups across 15European countries held coordinated actions under the banner “Stop Dirty Data Centres”. The campaign demanded an immediate moratorium on new large-scale data centredevelopments.The actions were not abstract. Some 2,000 people marched in Dublin. About 1,300 gathered in Helsinki, with demonstrations in smaller Finnish towns. Protesters broke into the construction site of a Microsoft data centre outside Amsterdam. There was a march in Warsaw outside the Polish parliament and a demonstration outside a Microsoft data centrein Denmark. Actions were also reported in Spain, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. The protesters are right about the cost. The data centre is the facility that draws the water,strains the grid, and raises the living cost of the town that hosts it. The moratorium is ademand to stop the facility before it is built. This paper does not dispute the cost. It disputes the target. The facility is the requirement of one architecture. There is a second architecture that does not have the requirement.