The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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News - UK & Ireland, Google
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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Google experiences "service disruption" in UK cloud region
Number of banks report issues
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Google receives planning permission to expand data center in Dublin, Ireland
An Coimisiún Pleanála greenlights plans
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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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Google, Energy Dome to develop 23MW energy storage project in Rhode, Ireland
Expected to come online in 2028
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Google takes up capacity at Nscale data center in West London, UK - report
Separate to the recently dropped Nscale site by OpenAI
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Frontier makes $2m R&D investment in two low-carbon lime companies
Aims to support the scaling of the technology
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Google gets approval for data center project at RAF airfield in Essex, UK
Will see two data center buildings developed
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Neocloud Fluidstack in talks to raise $700m at $7bn valuation - report
Google-backed company moves HQ to New York
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Google opens Hertfordshire data center as part of £5bn UK investment
Also teams up with oil company Shell in clean energy pact
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Google considers data center in Teesside, UK - report
Area already pinned for UK AI data center hub - could Google be the end user?
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UK's Ministry of Defence awards Google Cloud £400m contract
Google will establish UK sovereign cloud capabilities for MoD
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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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Google Cloud signs agreement with UK gov't to reduce legacy tech reliance
And other news from the Google Cloud Summit 2025
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Parish council objects to Google’s proposed data center development outside London, UK
Local council objects, but may be at odds with the higher up district council
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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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UK holds first meeting of new AI Energy Council
Attended by the likes of EDF, Ofgem, Google, and Microsoft
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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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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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£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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Echelon appeals ruling to block Dublin data center expansion
The company had applied to extend the existing ICT Facility
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Google Cloud London Summit: We can be the home of your AI dollars
Company pitches itself as the home of all your AI investment
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Microsoft signs carbon removal deals with Undo and Eion
As Frontier signs agreement with CarbonRun
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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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Google files appeal against council decision to block Dublin data center
Search giant files appeal with An Bord Pleanála for third building in Grange Castle
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Google denied data center planning permission in Dublin, Ireland
Proposed third building at Grange Castle campus rejected
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UK's CMA launches investigation into Google's investment in Anthropic
Investigation to determine if it counts as a defacto merger
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Microsoft accuses Google and AWS of 'muddying' UK CMA investigation
The battle of the clouds continues
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Jaguar's Formula E team selects Google Cloud as cloud partner for 2024/25
Will see team using Google's cloud and AI technologies