# Electrocutions, disease and no pay: how workers risk exploitation in Europe’s datacentres

- Source: Guardian World
- Published: 2026-10-30T05:00:46+00:00
- Category: World
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/oct/30/electrocutions-disease-and-no-pay-how-workers-risk-exploitation-in-europes-datacentres
- Canonical: https://groundlevelnews.com/story/electrocutions-disease-and-no-pay-how-workers-risk-exploitation-in-eur-b804dc/

As thousands of datacentres are constructed across Europe, the Guardian and Investigate Europe have uncovered disturbing evidence that some workers building them are exposed to dangerous conditions and living in fear of speaking out Sandu* checked his watch. He was winding down the last 15 minutes of his shift at a vast Google datacentre site in Saint-Ghislain, Belgium, in March, when the call cam

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