Friday
October 2
2026

Civil Society Calls on the Human Rights Commission to Investigate the Human Rights Impacts of South Africa’s Data Centre Boom

Five civil society organisations — the Housing Assembly, Foxglove, Open Secrets, Research + Action and Planetary AI Collective (with legal analysis by Open Secrets and the Legal Resources Centre) — have submitted their joint report to the South African Human Rights Commission on the human rights impacts of the country’s data centre boom.

Source: Open Secrets (link opens in a new window)

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Energy, Technology
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artificial intelligence, climate change, data, human rights, research