The obvious compromise seems to be to limit the duration of confidentiality to something reasonable. Let's say 1-2 years.

Furthermore the initial draft talked about aggregate data anyway. The EU really shouldn't care about individual DCs anyway.

As long as they keep the water clean (and pay for the relevant environmental load quotas) and have the permits who the fuck cares? It's idiotic anti-AI hysteria.

The quote about "ramping up their lobbying efforts" is also absurd, it's just a few lines after the paragraph that describes that the commission asked for feedback from the industry as part of some standard consultative process.

The most crazy part seems to be the commission's "we have always been at war with Eastasia" behavior regarding the confidentiality.