TOWARD OUR DIGITAL FUTURE

Leitmotiv is a think-and-do tank for an alternative digital economy.

Recently

We sent a join open letter urging action on data centers in Amsterdam.

On February the 4th, Corinne from Leitmotiv spoke to the Amsterdam municipal council committee concerning our letter of concern about a potential hyperscale datacenter in Amsterdam’s Sloterdijk area. The previously sent open letter to the municipality of Amsterdam and the province of North Holland was a joint effort with other non-profit organizations Advocates for the Future, Bits of Freedom, critical infrastructure lab, DeGoedeZaak and ARTICLE 19 Europe, assisted by law firm Stichting PILP.

Recently

We sent a join open letter urging action on data centers in Amsterdam.

On February the 4th, Corinne from Leitmotiv spoke to the Amsterdam municipal council committee concerning our letter of concern about a potential hyperscale datacenter in Amsterdam’s Sloterdijk area. The previously sent open letter to the municipality of Amsterdam and the province of North Holland was a joint effort with other non-profit organizations Advocates for the Future, Bits of Freedom, critical infrastructure lab, DeGoedeZaak and ARTICLE 19 Europe, assisted by law firm Stichting PILP.

July 2025

We submitted a detailed response to a call for evidence by the European Commission for an EU Cloud and AI Development Act.

The initiative assumes that Europe has to triple its data center capacity within the next 5-7 years. We challenge those assumptions, propose a concrete set of workable policy interventions that would enable fair and robust competition on digital infrastructure markets and warn about the significant environmental and social effects of expanding Europe's data center capacity.

July 2025

We submitted a detailed response to a call for evidence by the European Commission for an EU Cloud and AI Development Act.

The initiative assumes that Europe has to triple its data center capacity within the next 5-7 years. We challenge those assumptions, propose a concrete set of workable policy interventions that would enable fair and robust competition on digital infrastructure markets and warn about the significant environmental and social effects of expanding Europe's data center capacity.

Our perspective

Our digital economy is
broken.

Our digital economy is
broken.

The AI boom has sparked an unprecedented build-out of digital infrastructure that consumes vast amounts of resources while contributing to climate change, pollution, and grid congestion.

A handful of extremely powerful corporations dominate the supply chain of the digital economy from chip production to cloud services and beyond.

And the benefits of digitalization - that were believed to be manifold and democratically shared a mere decade ago - appear to be captured mostly by a new tech elite and their political allies.

Our 'Leitmotiv' is to promote an alternative digital economy that operates within planetary boundaries and where the benefits of digitalization are shared equitably and democratically .


Leitmotiv focuses on research that can help reshape the digital economy. Our research is meant to contribute to legal advocacy and strategic litigation. We aim to support an active community of NGOs, grassroots activists, donors, and others in civil society in various regions of the world

Towards an alternative digital future.

Towards an alternative digital future.