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The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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AWS set to secure £1.05bn contract renewal from UK Home Office
BidSkim analysis finds £444.6m spent on AWS since 2020
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F1 regulator signs cloud agreement with AWS
While Alibaba Cloud teams up with International Olympic Committee on youth games in Senegal
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AWS appoints British Embassy advisor as manager of energy policy
Robert Fourqurean will be based in Washington DC
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Big four hyperscalers raising more than $131 billion in debt and equity for AI buildout
Amazon alone discloses $80bn loan facility
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Anthropic S-1 update reveals $895.4bn in cloud and data center commitments
Revenues up, but growth slows
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AWS earnings jump, but investors grow weary of AI spend as quarterly capex hits $77bn
Shares fall as Amazon forecasts a weaker retail Q4 and continued data center spend
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AWS capacity "largely" sold out in 2027, Amazon CEO claims
"A good chunk" of 2028 pre-sold, although this doesn't include EC2
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AWS plans to expand data center footprint in Montgomery County, Missouri
Also hosts open house to discuss plans in Posey County, Indiana
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Oregon city declares state of emergency over lost data center revenue amid state-wide ban
City of Umatilla was relying on tax revenues due to come in from Sabey and Amazon
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Amazon withdraws application for data center campus at GWU site in Ashburn, Virginia
Cloud giant backs off proposals after pushback from Loudoun County officials
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Amazon pledges €16bn investment in Germany in 2027
Includes expanding data centers and AI infrastructure, high-speed satellite Internet, and logistics expansion
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United Overseas Bank taps AWS for hybrid cloud strategy
Will combine on-premises infrastructure and cloud computing
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US DOE funds 12 projects under Genesis Mission; cloud providers sign up to support effort
AWS and Crusoe among those to offer compute capacity
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AWS plans 36-building data center campus in Indiana County, Pennsylvania
Set for Homer City Energy Campus
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AWS drops non-disclosure agreements for data center projects
Follows Microsoft's footsteps
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Amazon signs PPA with Constellation for Maryland nuclear plant
20-year deal to see 190MW of capacity added to Calvert Cliffs plant
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AWS granted planning permission for data center in Iver, UK
Site at Ridgeway Distribution Centre set to be replaced with data center campus
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Amazon signs PPA with Statkraft for windfarm in Shetland, Scotland
Builds other wind PPAs in the UK
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Amazon to acquire two data centers in Hong Kong
Cloud company buys leased facility from landlord
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Amazon buys land outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Sunsuria sells two million sq ft in Sepang to Amazon Data Services
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Microsoft hires new director of global energy and sustainability policy
Ray Fakhoury III joins from AWS
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AWS “unable to restore access” to data centers hit by Iran strikes
Damage exceeded what availability zone was designed to withstand
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Qualcomm and AWS partner on custom silicon for large-scale AI data centers
Will also work on optical connectivity solution with up to 1.6T
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Anthropic signed $517bn in compute agreements in past 11 months
Represents 14.8GW of compute capacity
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Amazon plots new subsea cable linking US and Japan
First cable to land in Washington since the new millennium
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AWS cable landing station in West Cork, Ireland, approved despite local opposition
CLS to support Fastnet transatlantic cable connecting West Cork, Ireland, to Maryland, USA
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Microsoft links Azure with AWS for hyperscale harmony
Amazon cloud gets multicloud networking boost
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AWS to deploy 2 million additional Nvidia GPUs
Two companies expand their partnership