DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Standards & Regulations, Amazon Web Services
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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AWS pulls out of planned data center campus next to Maryland nuclear plant
Company withdraws plans for Calvert Technology Center
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Amazon, Duke Energy accused of evading Clean Air Act at under-development data center in Hamlet, North Carolina
Generators permitted for one year
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UK Treasury designates big four US hyperscalers as "Critical Third Parties"
Will bring Google, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Oracle under direct regulatory oversight
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AWS and Microsoft designated 'gatekeepers' under Europe's Digital Markets Act
European Commission's preliminary decision comes despite duo "not meeting the DMA's quantitative thresholds"
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Amazon workers testify in favor of regulating data centers, claim they faced backlash at work
Employees say they are being investigated by HR and were intimidated
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UK's competition watchdog launches SMS investigation into Microsoft, AWS avoids further scrutiny
Latest update shared on the Cloud Services Market Investigation
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Microsoft considers legal action against OpenAI and Amazon over $50bn contract - report
Should it breach Microsoft's exclusivity agreement with OpenAI
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EU watchdogs to investigate US cloud providers under Digital Markets Act
Follows major outage in October that impacted global services
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Microsoft expands Azure Local offering, adds Nvidia servers for sovereign AI
While AWS details its European Sovereign Cloud offering
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Amazon says utility PacifiCorp isn't providing enough power to Oregon data centers
Cloud giant lodges complaint with Public Utility Commission in state
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Amazon data centers in Jerome Township, Ohio, called emergency services 84 times since 2021
Firefighters say two data centers are calling for assistance around twice a month
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Google axes some data transfer costs in preparation for EU Data Act
Microsoft and Amazon also make some concessions
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"Competition is not working well," says UK CMA concluding cloud market investigation
AWS and Microsoft to undergo further "strategic market status" investigations
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Amazon takes King George County Supervisors to court over denied data center project
Company hoped to develop 869 acres into data center campus
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AWS claims half of Microsoft's customers would jump ship if licensing costs were lower
The UK's CMA investigation response hearings are in
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Microsoft hits back at UK CMA's provisional findings
Cloud providers publish their response to initial report
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FERC commisioner defends data center colocation, backs broader review
In favor of agreements between power plants and nearby data centers
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UK's CMA finds elements of cloud computing market has 'adverse effect on competition'
Calls for SMS investigation into AWS and Microsoft
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Susquehanna Nuclear challenges FERC rejection of connection agreement to power AWS data center
Seeks review of rejected ISA for power increase between nuclear plant and data center campus
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Microsoft to become latest member of CISPE
Just six months after CISPE filed complaint against Microsoft for anticompetitive practices
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£1bn Microsoft lawsuit claims it overcharged rival cloud firms’ UK customers
Thousands of businesses represented in huge Windows Server lawsuit that echoes CMA and CISPE allegations
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FERC blocks plan for Susquehanna nuclear plant interconnection to Amazon data center
Would have supported an expanded colocated load at an AWS data center connected to the 2.5GW plant
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AWS owes Acceleration Bay $30.5m for networking and broadcasting patent infringement
CloudFront content delivery system and Virtual Private Cloud infringe two patents jury finds
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CMA extends UK cloud market investigation by up to four months
Following publication of hearing summaries from AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud
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State-linked Chinese entities use AWS for access to high-end chips - report
Continues to work around export restrictions
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CMA launches full scale investigation into Amazon's partnership with Anthropic
Amazon "disappointed"
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Amazon sues Nokia for cloud computing patent infringement
Comes less than a year after Nokia sued Amazon
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Microsoft accuses Google and AWS of 'muddying' UK CMA investigation
The battle of the clouds continues