The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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News - UK & Ireland, Amazon Web Services
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
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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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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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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AWS launches new availability zone for UK cloud region
Also adds AWS Local Zone in Las Vegas, Nevada
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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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Amazon signs 90MW onshore wind PPA with Egg Power in Scotland
Biggest onshore wind PPA signed within in UK market
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AiOnX secures hyperscale tenant for Irish data center campus outside Dublin
Tenant likely Amazon, first phase due to launch later this year
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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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AWS wins UK's HMRC data center services contract after Fujitsu exit
AWS will help the department to exit three Fujitsu data centers in the UK
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Amazon files to develop tape library data center outside London, UK
Company looks to build facility in Hemel Hempstead
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Amazon files to build subsea cable landing station in Cork, Ireland
Company building CLS to serve Fastnet cable
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AWS gets greenlight for three data centers in Dublin, Ireland, again
An Coimisiún Pleanála (ACP) grants planning permission to cloud giant
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RWE sells Didcot A coal plant in UK to Amazon for data center
Idle site sold for $265 million
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AWS set to win UK's HMRC £500m data center exit contract - report
Company is last one standing in the race
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AWS files to develop data center outside London, UK
Company asks to build facility in Iver, Buckinghamshire
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BT signs new five-year agreement with AWS
Expands on telco's ongoing cloud migration efforts
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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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UK retailer Debenhams Group signs multi-year deal with AWS
Will add other brands to existing cloud deal
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London Stock Exchange expands use of AWS cloud platform
Names AWS preferred provider for markets, risk intelligence, and FTSE Russell divisions
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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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Amazon signs PPA with ERG in Northern Ireland
Will deliver the hyperscaler 2.5TWh of power
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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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Amazon files for Ireland-to-US subsea cable
Company looks to land cable in County Cork on the south cost of Ireland
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UK Crown Commercial Service increased cloud hosting deal with AWS by 89% mid-contract
Questions raised about why the department didn't re-tender
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The Co-operative Bank migrates IT infrastructure to AWS
Kyndryl gets the migration gig
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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