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- by Dan RobinsonOne wants customers next door, the other wants cheap power Datacenter building decisions tend to fall into two camps with colocation providers plumping for urban areas while hyperscalers seek sites where electricity, land, and construction costs come cheaper.…
- by Dan RobinsonTrillion-dollar internet giants don't need freebies, watchdog warns, as giveaways double in a year The US state of Virginia forfeited $1.6 billion in tax revenue through datacenter exemptions in fiscal 2025 – up 118 percent on the prior year – as the AI-driven construction boom accelerates.…
- by Carly PageCampaigners say Britain's dependence on Big Tech leaves critical systems exposed to political pressure The Open Rights Group is warning politicians that the UK is leaning far too heavily on US tech companies to run critical systems, and wants the Cybersecurity and Resilience Bill to force a rethink.…
- by Corey QuinnAn anomaly or the beginning of a new trend? My bet's on the latter I've been tracking AWS for a long time, with a specific emphasis on pricing. "What happens if AWS hikes prices" has always been something of a boogeyman, trotted out as a hypothetical to urge folks to avoid taking dependencies on a […]
- by Lindsay ClarkUS trade body threatens software and services market access unless European approach changes The EU has pledged to stand firm against US threats following fines levied against Amercian tech companies for breaching recently introduced digital laws.…
- by Paul KunertCountries that banded together to challenge Boeing in the air try to do the same to AWS, Microsoft, and Google on the ground Feature More than half a century ago, a consortium of European aerospace businesses from the UK, France, Germany and Spain joined forces to take on America's Boeing. Fast forward to the 21st […]
- by Simon SharwoodVMware's main challenger already embraces multiple storage options Amazon Web Services has given Nutanix a lovely Christmas present: Support for its AHV hypervisor in hybrid cloud storage rigs.…
- by Lindsay ClarkThe company that bet the farm on AI said to have made things worse with AI Oracle's new AI-powered support portal is frustrating customers and support engineers who are struggling to find the basics, such as old tickets, links to database patch programs and release schedules for current databases.…
- by Kim LoohuisPublic bodies migrate in the bloc as hyperscalers claim sovereignty Feature Europe’s quest for digital sovereignty is hampered by a 90 per cent dependency on US cloud infrastructure, claims Cristina Caffarra, a competition expert and a driving force behind the Eurostack initiative.…
- by Paul KunertTech exec admits not dead cert it'll find the right solution Exclusive Airbus is preparing to tender a major contract to migrate mission-critical workloads to a digitally sovereign European cloud – but estimates only an 80/20 chance of finding a suitable provider.…
- by O'Ryan JohnsonCustomers in 10 of the company’s 23 regions had “operations fail or take an extended amount of time to complete.” Snowflake pushed an update this week that caused a “major outage” worldwide, leaving many users unable to query data, experiencing failures when ingesting files, and receiving error messages for 13 hours, the company wrote in […]
- by Joe FayBuild a digital backbone faster than adversaries can evolve or lose the information war NATO is in an existential race to develop sovereign cloud-based technologies to underpin its mission, the alliance's Assistant Secretary General for Cyber and Digital Transformation told an audience at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) last week.…
- by Tobias MannBig Red said it had sold its stake in its long-time silicon partner last week Oracle last week announced that it had divested from Ampere Computing. But while Big Red may no longer own part of the Arm CPU maker, it's not ready to stop using the chips just yet.…
- by Connor JonesCritical vulnerabilities found in third-party applications eligible for award under 'in scope by default' move Microsoft is overhauling its bug bounty program to reward exploit hunters for finding vulnerabilities across all its products and services, even those without established bounty schemes.…
- by Connor JonesJustice Department alleges federal auditors were misled over compliance with FedRAMP and DoD requirements The US is suing a former senior manager at Accenture for allegedly misleading the government about the security of an Army cloud platform.…
- by Richard SpeedCompetition Appeal Tribunal to decide if multibillion-pound overcharging case can go to trial Stop us if you've heard this one before. Microsoft is in court regarding allegedly sharp software licensing practices.…
- by Dan RobinsonDOE lays out $320M plan for science platform linking national labs, industry, and academia President Trump's "Genesis Mission" is taking shape with the award of more than $320 million from the Department of Energy (DOE) to advance AI in scientific research.…
- by Thomas ClaburnBut if you assume cloud IOUs will be fulfilled, business is booming Oracle expects its FY 2026 capital expenditures will be $15 billion higher that previously predicted, as the cloudy database biz invests to accommodate AI workloads.…
- by Corey QuinnBut the 25 announcements in the last 10 minutes included a few well worth waiting for AWS CEO Matt Garman's annual re:Invent keynote was the best kind of keynote, in that you could have slept in for nearly all of it and still been thrilled to pieces, provided you caught the last ten minutes. He […]
- by Lindsay ClarkKendall says Whitehall will use bulk buying to squeeze better value from cloud giants The UK tech minister has promised more whole-government deals with industry giants following its £9 billion agreement with Microsoft, and is seeking to target cloud service providers.…
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