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News - Europe, AWS
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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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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UK council launches heat network feasibility study for proposed data centers near Didcot Power Station in Oxfordshire
Will be undertaken by Nordic Energy, with results published in March of next year
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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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AWS launches Local Zone Edge location in Athens, Greece
Follows launch of Turkey location earlier this 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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Amazon signs 90MW onshore wind PPA with Egg Power in Scotland
Biggest onshore wind PPA signed within in UK market
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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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Railway taps Claude to design a data center
Assists with company's "Gen 2" sites roll out
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Plans revealed for AWS data center in Maintal, Germany
Facility will expand the cloud computing giant’s Frankfurt region
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AWS launches Local Zone Edge location in Istanbul, Turkey
First cloud location in the country for the hyperscaler
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Vodafone pairs with Nokia to trial IoT applications over AWS cloud
Ahead of planned commercial trials later this year
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Telefónica Germany, Mavenir kick off public cloud migration
The first 100,000 mobile customers have been migrated, with millions more to follow
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AWS operated 56.84 million square feet of data center and office space in 2025
A 16 percent increase on the year before
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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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Finland's Ministry of Justice delays plans for cloud migration
Election platform will now be deployed in the cloud after next year's general election
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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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Nokia and AWS set up agentic AI powered network slice
Carried out a trial with telcos Du and Orange
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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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Dutch investment company Prosus inks three-year cloud and AI agreement with AWS
Will see the two co-creating AI solutions for certain Prosus portfolio companies
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AWS signs 110MW offshore wind PPA with RWE in Germany
Tied to the 900MW Nordseecluster B offshore wind farm in the eastern German North Sea
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AWS European Sovereign Cloud now generally available
Cloud giant plans to expand the offering across EU
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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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Aumovio selects AWS as preferred cloud provider to accelerate self-driving trucks
Automotive company will use cloud computing and AI services to develop autonomous driving solutions
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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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AWS plans more data centers near Frankfurt, Germany
Will be the result of more than $1bn in investment