Electrocutions, disease and no pay: worker exploitation in Europe's datacentres

bell-cot

Obvious question: Are workers reliably better off at non-datacenter job sites in Europe? My suspicion is "no" - but nobody much cares about the actual workers.

snvzz

https://archive.is/lPFsa

DaedalusII

> 34-year-old electrical tester > He was winding down the last 15 minutes > A protective suit was locked away in an equipment room. The round trip would have added another 15 minutes to the job, he says, and people were waiting, so he decided not to retrieve the suit. > zap so an employee whose entire job is testing electrical installations violated health and safety rules and electrocuted themselves and now we should blame someone? europe does not deserve compute