Company files application to have empty lot in Prince William County rezoned for data centers

Waste not, or we want you not

Facility will be built by Oppidan Investment Company

Company invested in 10GW of renewable energy across 232 projects globally, is also biggest buyer in Europe

Excess heat from AWS data center will be used to heat public sector buildings, commercial space, and apartments

Actual mining, that is, not crypto

Company waiting for local regulation change around data centers before making purchase, but is “very interested” in developing in the town

Company gains approval as data center developments in Ireland come under closer scrutiny

Company says new region due to come online in 2023

New five story facility possibly intended for AWS

Company’s first Spanish region launch moved up from 2023 to mid-2022

Boeing heads for the clouds

Amazon wins another UK Government contract

Three availability zones coming in 2022

Nimbus tender stipulates companies can't halt services to Government as a whole or individual departments

Nikkei reports the company looking at buying energy from new wind and solar plants

Company plans local zones in 12 more cities for local low-latency applications next to population hubs

Microsoft would lose out on the $10bn deal

Planned facility could use too much water, cost money, and bring too few jobs

Says that even if the procurement process had issues, Oracle was always going to lose

Even though AWS lost and is suing saying it was cheated

Makes more in profits than Google Cloud makes in revenue

Justice joined HMRC & Home Office in giving Amazon big cloud contracts

A long time ago in a procurement cycle far, far away, the US military tried to buy a cloud service