The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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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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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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AWS drops non-disclosure agreements for data center projects
Follows Microsoft's footsteps
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Microsoft hires new director of global energy and sustainability policy
Ray Fakhoury III joins from AWS
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Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claims fresh hit on AWS data center in Bahrain
Says strikes were in response to alleged US attack on nuclear power plant in Darkhuin
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AWS cloud lead Dave Brown heads to Meta - report
After Meta reveals plans for its own cloud business
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Google Cloud names Hussein Shel to lead oil & gas unit
Moves over from AWS
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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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AWS experiences power issues at Northern Virginia cloud region, causing limited outage
Caused by thermal event
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Iran attack hits an Oracle data center in Dubai, causes limited damage
Dubai Media Office initially calls claims "fake news," later confirms shrapnel impact
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Fire at AWS data center in Bahrain after Iranian attack - report
AWS yet to confirm
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AWS Bahrain region "disrupted" by drone activity as war in Middle East continues to impact data centers
Cloud giant moves more customers to other regions
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Iranian state-affiliated news agency claims AWS data center drone strikes were deliberate
As part of attacks that also impacted AWS' Middle Eastern Ground Station
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Israel and US bomb data centers in Tehran, following Iran's drone strikes on AWS
As data centers increasingly become targets in war
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Amazon confirms two UAE data centers hit by drone strikes, third in Bahrain damaged
As Iran strikes the Middle East following US and Israeli attacks
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AWS UAE suffers AZ outage after "objects strike data center" and cause fire, amid Iran attacks
Availability Zone in ME-CENTRAL-1 brought offline in possible drone or missile attack
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Cloudflare experiences latency issues at New Jersey data center
DownDector suggests X and AWS also experiencing issues, though AWS refutes this
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Amazon confirms 16,000 layoffs, including at AWS
After accidentally revealing the job cuts in an email
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Amazon plans 14,000 more job cuts, including across AWS cloud division
Following similar cuts last October
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xAI poaches AWS data center networking lead for machine learning role
Saurabh Kumar had worked at Amazon's cloud platform for nine years
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AWS has more than 900 data centers - report
Data suggests cloud giant operates double the number of data centers previously thought
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Microsoft Azure reports issues, a day after increased latencies at AWS
None seem to be full outages, but have caused problems
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Microsoft appoints Judson Althoff as co-CEO to work alongside Satya Nadella
AWS also announces new managing director of AWS European Sovereign Cloud subsidiary
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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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AWS data center in Quebec, Canada, blockaded over Amazon layoffs
Activists demand firm return public money
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Two people hospitalized after fire at AWS data center construction site in New Carlisle, Indiana
Smoke filled a building at site of $11bn project
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Network issue at AWS data center brings down crypto exchanges
Binance and KuCoin among those impacted
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AWS employee held hostage by Hamas released, CEO Jassy "incredibly relieved"
CEO speaks out after maintaining silence through hostage period